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Friends and friendship

It takes two people to ruin a perfectly good day. First a person who says something downright nasty about you, and second, a dear friend who makes sure you hear about it immediately.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

The miracle of friendship can be spoken without words... hearing unspoken needs, recognizing secret dreams, understanding the silent things that only true friend know.

Friendship makes prosperity brighter, while it lightens adversity by sharing its grieves and anxieties.

Cicero, Marcus T.

Do not tell a friend anything you would conceal from an enemy.

Proverb, Arabian

A good motto is: Use friendliness but do not use your friends.

Crane, Frank

Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

Nathan, George Jean

In a friend you find a second self.

Norton, Isabelle

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

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

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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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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

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Friendship is essentially a partnership.

Aristotle

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Ones oldest friend is the best.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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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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Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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Stay is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.

Alcott, Louisa May

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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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Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

Gracian, Baltasar

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Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.

Aristotle

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Many a time from a bad beginning great friendships have sprung up.

Terence

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We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need.

Epicurus

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

Jerome, St.

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Friendship is a very simple word, very commonly used. The word friend is almost used on a daily basis. Yet, the depth and meaning of friendship certainly go beyond the simple and the common. Throughout history friendship has been a favorite theme for many writers. The following passages highlight what others have said about friendship in the past.

Riera, Dorothy

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We know our friends by their defects rather than their merits.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Friendships begun in this world will be taken up again, never to be broken off.

Francis De Sales, St.

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

Clark, Esther M.

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Friendships are fragile things and require as much care in handling as any other fragile and precious thing.

Bourne, Randolph S.

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What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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Friends show me what I can do, foes teach me what I should do.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care to acquire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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The glory of friendship is not in the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is in the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means you've become a comfortable, trusted element in another person's life.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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Old friends are the great blessings of one's later years. Half a word conveys one's meaning. They have a memory of the same events, have the same mode of thinking. I have young relations that may grow upon me, for my nature is affectionate, but can they grow [To Be] old friends?

Walpole, Horace

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It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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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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I don't like that man. I'm going to have to get to know him better.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.

Winchell, Walter

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With true friends... even water drunk together is sweet enough.

Proverb, Chinese

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I would rather have a million friends than a million dollars.

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

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The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must bear half.

FeNelon, Francois

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Keep a fair-sized cemetery in your back yard, in which to bury the faults of your friends.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.

Grant, Ulysses S.