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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.
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Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief.
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Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved.
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The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.
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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.
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Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.
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Stay is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.
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A faithful friend is the medicine of life.
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Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.
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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.
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Without friends, no one would want to live, even if he had all other goods.
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Without friends no one would choose to live.
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Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.
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A true friend is one soul in two bodies.
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To the query, What is a friend? his reply was A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
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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.
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Friendship is essentially a partnership.
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Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
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What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
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Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.
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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.
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I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.
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Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness...
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Your friends will know you better in the first minute they meet you than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.
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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?
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Without friends the world is but a wilderness. There is no man that imparteth his joys to his friends, but he joyeth the more; and no man that imparteth his grieves to his friend, but he grieveth the less.
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The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.
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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.
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Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.
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The best time to make friends is before you need them.
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Keep a fair-sized cemetery in your back yard, in which to bury the faults of your friends.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality.
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Faithful are the wounds of a friend.
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A faithful friend is a strong defense: and he that hath found one hath found a treasure.
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Some friends play at friendship, but a true friend sticks closer than one's nearest kin. [Proverbs 18:24]
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Forsake not an old friend, for the new is not comparable unto him. A new friend is as new wine: when it is old thou shalt drink it with pleasure.
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A friend loveth at all times. [Proverbs 17:17]
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A mirror reflects a man's face, but what he is really like is shown by the kind of friends he chooses. [Proverbs 27:19]
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A puppy plays with every pup he meets, but an old dog has few associates.
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Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache; do be my enemy for friendship's sake.
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Friends come and go but enemies accumulate.
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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.
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Friendships are fragile things and require as much care in handling as any other fragile and precious thing.
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False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.
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Friendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports.
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I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar.
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Thus much for thy assurance know; a hollow friend is but a hellish foe.
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How delightful to find a friend in everyone.
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If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own.
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Love is like the wild rose-briar; Friendship like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms, but which will bloom most constantly?
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Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.
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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.
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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.
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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
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Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings.
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The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.
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A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure.
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Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another. -
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That is what friendship means. Sharing the prejudice of experience.
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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.
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Love is only chatter, friends are all that matter.
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Win hearts, and you have hands and purses.
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False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports.
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A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.
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Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
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A man's friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage -- but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends.
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A friend who cannot at a pinch remember a thing or two that never happened is as bad as one who does not know how to forget.
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Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.
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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.
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Friendship is Love without his wings!
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I have always laid it down as a maxim --and found it justified by experience --that a man and a woman make far better friendships than can exist between two of the same sex --but then with the condition that they never have made or are to make love to each other.
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I have had, and may have still, a thousand friends, as they are called, in life, who are like one's partners in the waltz of this world --not much remembered when the ball is over.
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Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow; Don't walk behind me, I may not lead; Walk beside me, and just be my friend.
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Give me the avowed, the erect, the manly foe, bold I can meet, perhaps may turn his blow! But of all plagues, good Heavens, thy wrath can send, save, save, oh save me from the candid friend!
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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.
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You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
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Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family --but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything.
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A man must eat a peck of salt with his friend, before he knows him.
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The dearest friend on earth is a mere shadow compared to Jesus Christ.
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