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Friends and friendship

Friendship is a priceless treasure never to be bought or sold -- it can only be cherished.

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Every friend is to the other a sun, and a sunflower also. He attracts and follows.

Richter, Jean Paul

Strangers are just friends I haven't met yet.

Rogers, Will

I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about.

Hazlitt, William

The good fellow to everyone is a good friend to no one.

Proverb, Jewish

We die as often as we lose a friend.

Syrus, Publilius

Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

Nathan, George Jean

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

There are persons who cannot make friends. Who are they? Those who cannot be friends. It is not the want of understanding or good nature, of entertaining or useful qualities, that you complain of: on the contrary, they have probably many points of attraction; but they have one that neutralizes all these --they care nothing about you, and are neither the better nor worse for what you think of them. They manifest no joy at your approach; and when you leave them, it is with a feeling that they can do just as well without you. This is not sullenness, nor indifference, nor absence of mind; but they are intent solely on their own thoughts, and you are merely one of the subjects they exercise them upon. They live in society as in a solitude.

Hazlitt, William

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Your friend is that man who knows all about you, and still likes you.

Hubbard, Elbert

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It is not what you give your friend, but what you are willing to give him that determines the quality of friendship.

Thayer, Mary Dixon

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A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.

Jerome, St.

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A true friend is somebody who can make us do what we can.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Short judgments make long friends.

Proverb

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The gift of friendship... a willingness to listen... a pair of helping hands... a whisper from the heart. That someone cares and understands.

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Never exaggerate your faults, your friends will attend to that.

Edwards, Robert C.

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Learn to reject friendship, or rather the dream of friendship. To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art, or life (like aesthetic joys). I must refuse it in order to be worthy to receive it

Weil, Simone

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Friendship is a sheltering tree.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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Give me one friend, just one, who meets The needs of all my varying moods.

Clark, Esther M.

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How rare and wonderful is that flash of a moment when we realize we have discovered a friend.

Rothschild, William E.

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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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To keep a new friend, never break with the old.

Proverb, Russian

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Friends, both the imaginary ones you build for yourself out of phrases taken from a living writer, or real ones from college, and relatives, despite all the waste of ceremony and fakery and the fact that out of an hour of conversation you may have only five minutes in which the old entente reappears, are the only real means for foreign ideas to enter your brain.

Baker, Nicholson

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A home-made friend wears longer than one you buy in the market.

O'Malley, Austin

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Friends are needed both for joy and for sorrow.

Paterson, Samuel

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Verily, great grace may go with a little gift; and precious are all things that come from a friend.

Theocritus

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There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first... when you learn to live for others, they will live for you.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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And what a delight it is to make friends with someone you have despised.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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Never shall I forget the time I spent with you. Please continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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Friendship should be a private pleasure, not a public boast. I loathe those braggarts who are forever trying to invest themselves with importance by calling important people by their first names in or out of print. Such first-naming for effect makes me cringe.

Brown, John Mason

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A man should choose a friend who is better than himself. There are plenty of acquaintances in the world; but very few real friends.

Proverb, Chinese

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We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over. So in a series of kindness there is, at last, one which makes the heart run over.

Boswell, James

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If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept because you will gain one friend.

Augustine, St.

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The first day one is a guest, the second a burden, and the third a pest.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures.

Gibran, Kahlil

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A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow.

Shakespeare, William

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A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother.

Homer

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You may poke a man's fire after you've known him for seven years.

Proverb, English

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There is a scarcity of friendship, but not of friends.

Fuller, Thomas

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The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses.

Storey, David

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Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

Brookner, Anita

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Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

Delille, Jacques

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In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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From quiet homes and first beginning, out to the undiscovered ends, there's nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends.

Belloc, Hilaire

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Who seeks a faultless friend remains friendless.

Proverb, Turkish

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Who ceases to be a friend never was one.

Proverb, Greek

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A friend you have to buy; enemies you get for nothing.

Proverb, Jewish

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Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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Friendship Never explain -- your friends do not need it, and your enemies will not believe it anyway. A real friend never gets in your way, unless you happen to be on the way down. A friend is someone you can do nothing with and enjoy it. However much we guard ourselves against it, we tend to shape ourselves in the image others have of us. It is not so much the example of others we imitate, as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words.

Hoffer, Eric

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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