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Friends and friendship

Friendship should be a responsibility, never an opportunity.

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

Alcott, Louisa May

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Wycherley, William

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

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

Crane, Frank

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

The time to make friends is before you need them.

Proverb

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

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In America every woman has her set of girl-friends; some are cousins, the rest are gained at school. These form a permanent committee who sit on each other's affairs, who come out together, marry and divorce together, and who end as those groups of bustling, heartless well-informed club-women who govern society. Against them the Couple of Ehepaar is helpless and Man in their eyes but a biological interlude.

Connolly, Cyril

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

Jerome, St.

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

Homer

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The gift of friendship is a wondrous thing with the joys and happiness good friends bring.

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It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.

McLaughlin, Mignon

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Strangers are just friends I haven't met yet.

Rogers, Will

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A puppy plays with every pup he meets, but an old dog has few associates.

Billings, Josh

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True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.

Washington, George

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A drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gal. So with men. If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey which catches his heart, which, say what he will, is the highroad to his reason.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.

Pythagoras

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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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Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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A friend is known when needed.

Proverb, Arabian

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I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.

Aretino, Pietro

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Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?

Jefferson, Thomas

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We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for our ability to amuse them.

Waugh, Evelyn

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

Epicurus

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Friends are needed both for joy and for sorrow.

Paterson, Samuel

30.

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

32.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil -- but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small silly presents every so often -- just to save it from drying out completely

Brown, Pam

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Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

Gracian, Baltasar

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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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A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

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Friendship can only exist between persons with similar interests and points of view. Man and woman by the conventions of society are born with different interests and different points of view.

Strindberg, J. August

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A man never likes you so well as when he leaves your company liking himself.

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Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

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When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly.

Belloc, Hilaire

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Can miles truly separate us from friends? If we want to be with someone we love, aren't we already there?

Bach, Richard

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He whose hand is clasped in friendship cannot throw mud.

43.

I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.

Mansfield, Katherine

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Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache; do be my enemy for friendship's sake.

Blake, William

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Be not the fourth friend of him who had three before and lost them.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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A friend walks in when everyone else walks out

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

Schulberg, Budd

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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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He is a fine friend. He stabs you in the front.

Levinson, Leonard Louis

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A friend is one to whom one may pour out all the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that the gentlest of hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.

Craik, Dinah Maria Mulock