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Friends and friendship

A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your successes.

- Larson, Doug

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Without friends, no one would want to live, even if he had all other goods.

Aristotle

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

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

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.

Bacon, Francis

Show me a genuine case of platonic friendship, and I shall show you two old or homely faces.

O'Malley, Austin

Friendship's the privilege of private men; for wretched greatness knows no blessing so substantial.

Tate, Nahum

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.

God gives us our relatives -- thank God we can choose our friends.

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Friends are like melons; shall I tell you why? To find one good you must one hundred try.

Mermet, Claude

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Seek the friend who's hand helped you and tell them what they mean to you.

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Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.

Randolf, G.

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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.

Buddha

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Win hearts, and you have hands and purses.

Burleigh, Lord

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

Terence

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I shot an arrow into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For so swiftly it flew, the sight Could not follow it in its flight. I breathed a song into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For, who has sight so keen and strong That it can follow the flight of song? Long, long afterward, in an oak I found the arrow, still unbroken; And the song, from beginning to end, I found again in the heart of a friend.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Proverb, Indian

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Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.

Hsieh, Tehyi

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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 someone with whom you dare to be yourself.

Crane, Frank

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Everybody needs one essential friend.

Glasser, Dr. William

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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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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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Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

Euripides

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Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

Gracian, Baltasar

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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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Two friendships in two breasts requires The same aversions and desires.

Swift, Jonathan

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A ray of sunshine, a balmy breeze Are a gift from God above, And He also gives us faithful friends. To warm our hearts with love.

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You can always tell a real friend; when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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A friend you have to buy won't be worth what you pay for him.

Prentice, George D.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Let your best be for your friend...

Gibran, Kahlil

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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.

Camus, Albert

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

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Real friends are those who, when you've made a fool of yourself, don't feel that you've done a permanent job.

Randall, Erwin T.

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Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one.

Lee, Robert E.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.

Gentry, David Tyson

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

Proverb, Chinese

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A man must eat a peck of salt with his friend, before he knows him.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Make new friends but keep the old ones; one is silver and the other's gold.

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Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

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A friend is known when needed.

Proverb, Arabian

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A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.

Wein, Len

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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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Hold a true friend with both your hands.

Proverb, Nigerian

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A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.

Meltzer, Bernard

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