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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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In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.

Aristotle

When you need someone to comfort you, a friend is near

I do then with my friends as I do with my books. I would have them where I can find them, but I seldom use them.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

For the friendship of two, the patience of one is required.

Proverb, Indian

Thus much for thy assurance know; a hollow friend is but a hellish foe.

Breton, Nicholas

If you have one true friend you have more than your share.

Fuller, Thomas

Friendship is to have the latchkey of another's mind.

Godospeed, Edgar

10.

I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.

Ustinov, Peter

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A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends.

Byron, Lord

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You can't eat your friends and have them too.

Schulberg, Budd

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

Sallust

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Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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If you go looking for a friend, you're going to find they're very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you'll find them everywhere.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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The dearest friend on earth is a mere shadow compared to Jesus Christ.

Chambers, Oswald

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True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

Thoreau, Henry David

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The only way not to break a friendship is not to drop it.

Holz, Julie

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In comradeship is danger countered best.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Proverb, Jewish

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

Edwards, Robert C.

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It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures.

Wycherley, William

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One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

Adams, Henry Brooks

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Friends will keep you sane, Love could fill your heart, A lover can warm your bed, But lonely is the soul without a mate.

Pratt, David

29.

When you face a crisis, you know who your true friends are.

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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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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Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

32.

I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred --that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorrupt. If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher

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A friend walks in when everyone else walks out

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Friend -- One who knows all about you and likes you just the same

35.

A friend is a present you give to yourself.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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A friend is someone you can be alone with and have nothing to do and not be able to think of anything to say and be comfortable in the silence.

Condie, Sheryl

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Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

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

Fuller, Thomas

42.

Never, my dear Sir, do you take it into your head that I do not love you; you may settle yourself in full confidence both of my love and my esteem; I love you as a kind man, I value you as a worthy man, and hope in time to reverence you as a man of exemplary piety.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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Precious gifts of friendship... knowing the heart of another, sharing one's heart with another.

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The difficulty is not that great to die for a friend, the hard part is finding a friend worth dying for.

Home, Henry

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Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend -- or a meaningful day.

Dalai Lama

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Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can't have too many friends because then you're just not really friends.

Capote, Truman

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Money can't buy you friends; but you do get a better class of enemies.

White, Somers

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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.