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Friends and friendship

Friendship is a precious gift. To give at Christmas time. A Cherished gift, a treasured gift that lasts through all time.

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Friendship is genuine when two friends can enjoy each others company without speaking a word to one another.

Ebers, George

A friend is known when needed.

Proverb, Arabian

I desire to so conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

Lincoln, Abraham

A friend hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.

Digest, Readers

For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends are far apart there is no separation.

Weil, Simone

These can never be true friends: Hope, dice, a prostitute, a robber, a cheat, a goldsmith, a monkey, a doctor, a distiller.

Proverb, Indian

If you have no enemies you are apt to be in the same predicament in regard to friends.

Hubbard, Elbert

Your notions of friendship are new to me; I believe every man is born with his quantum, and he cannot give to one without robbing another. I very well know to whom I would give the first place in my friendship, but they are not in the way, I am condemned to another scene, and therefore I distribute it in pennyworths to those about me, and who displease me least, and should do the same to my fellow prisoners if I were condemned to a jail.

Swift, Jonathan

Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

Nathan, George Jean

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Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.

Auden, W. H.

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Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

Lewis, C. S.

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Win new friends but keep the old. The first are silver; the latter gold.

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Your friendship is a glowing ember Through the year; and each December From its warm and living spark We kindle flame against the dark And with its shining radiance light Our tree of faith on Christmas night.

Lund, Thelma J.

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The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away.

Mizner, Wilson

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If you have no friends to share or rejoice in your success in life -- if you cannot look back to those whom you owe gratitude, or forward to those to whom you ought to afford protection, still it is no less incumbent on you to move steadily in the path of duty; for your active excretions are due not only to society; but in humble gratitude to the Being who made you a member of it, with powers to save yourself and others.

Scott, Sir Walter

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Friends come and go but enemies accumulate.

Bloch, Arthur

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Friendship's the privilege of private men; for wretched greatness knows no blessing so substantial.

Tate, Nahum

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One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

Euripides

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Broken friendships can be soldered, but never sound.

Proverb

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What is thine is mine, and all mine is thine.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back on at the end of life and number as their most sacred experiences.

Kennedy, Eugene

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All things being equal, people will do business with a friend; all things being unequal, people will still do business with a friend.

Mccormack, Mark

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Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another. -

Budgell, Eustace

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It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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A friend is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.

Crane, Frank

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There is an electricity about a friendship relationship. We are both more relaxed and more sensitive, more creative and more reflective, more energetic and more casual, more excited and more serene. It is as though when we come in contact with our friend we enter into a different environment. ANDREW M. GREELEY

Greeley, Andrew M.

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He whose hand is clasped in friendship cannot throw mud.

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Those that are a friend to themselves are sure to be a friend to all.

Seneca

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A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.

Buscaglia, Leo

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What is a friend? I will tell you it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.

Crane, Frank

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Thank You Friend I never came to you, my friend, and went away without some new enrichment of the heart; More faith and less of doubt, more courage in the days ahead. And often in great need coming to you, I went away comforted indeed. How can I find the shining word, the glowing phrase that tells all that your love has meant to me, all that your friendship spells? There is no word, no phrase for you on whom I so depend. All I can say to you is this, God bless you precious friend.

Crowell, Grace Noll

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The best vitamin for making friends, B-1.

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God gives us our relatives -- thank God we can choose our friends.

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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In the New Year, may your right hand always be stretched out in friendship, but never in want.

Toast, Irish

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No young man starting in life could have better capital than plenty of friends. They will strengthen his credit, support him in every great effort, and make him what, unaided, he could never be. Friends of the right sort will help him more -- to be happy and successful -- than much money...

Marden, Orison Swett

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Friendship should be more than biting time can sever.

Eliot, T. S.

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The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.

Addison, Joseph

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In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue. If we have enough friends, we may go on for years, intending to leave, talking about leaving --instead of actually getting up and leaving.

Jong, Erica

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We shelter children for a time; we live side by side with men; and that is all. We owe them nothing, and are owed nothing. I think we owe our friends more, especially our female friends.

Weldon, Fay

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Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

Owens, Jesse

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I can't forgive my friends for dying; I don't find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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Friendship is a precious gift. To give at Christmas time. A Cherished gift, a treasured gift that lasts through all time.

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Don't wait for people to be friendly, show them how.

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Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. The conviction of the rich that the poor are happier is no more foolish than the conviction of the poor that the rich are.

Twain, Mark

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I have a friend who tells a tale With statements parenthetical; To start at the beginning must To her seem quite heretical; For her accounts of happenings Are full of disconnection s; She starts them in the middle, And proceeds in all directions.

Stux, Erica H.

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There is no friend as loyal as a book

Hemingway, Ernest

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Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

Euripides

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To like and dislike the same things, this is what makes a solid friendship.

Sallust