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The shifts of Fortune test the reliability of friends.
Cicero
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'Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and have her nonsense respected.
Charles Lamb
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Friendship with oneself is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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It's so much more friendly with two.
Piglet
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No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth.
Robert Southey
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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.
Benjamin Franklin
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My mother used to say that there are no strangers, only friends you haven't met yet. She's now in a maximum security twilight home in Australia.
Dame Edna Everage
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Never explain--your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.
Elbert Hubbard
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Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend;
Jean de La Fontaine
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The most beautiful discover true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.
Katherine Mansfield
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The cat could very well be man's best friend but would never stoop to admitting it.
Doug Larson
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Everyone hears what you say, friends listen to what you say. best friends listen to what you dont say
Unknown
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Adversity is the touchstone of friendship.
French Proverb
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What importance can we attach to the things of this world? Friendship? It disappears when the one who is liked comes to grief, or the one who likes becomes powerful. Love? it is deceived, fleeting, or guilty. Fame? You share it with mediocrity or crime. Fortune? Could that frivolity be counted a blessing? All that remains are those so-called happy days that flow past unnoticed in the obscurity of domestic cares, leaving man with the desire neither to lose his life nor to begin it over.
Chateaubriand
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Do not be content with showing friendship in words alone, let your heart burn with loving kindness for all who may cross your path.
Abdul Baha
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Friendship improves hapiness and reduces misery, by doubting our joys and dividing our grief.
Joseph Addison
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You can forget a lot of things, but you cannot forget a woman's name and claim to love her.
Real Live Preacher
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There isn't much better in this life than finding a way to spend a few hours in conversation with people you respect and love. You have to carve this time out of your life because you aren't really living without it.
Real Live Preacher
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Adversity does teach who your real friends are.
Lois McMaster Bujold
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Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.
Jane Austen
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Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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If you make it plain you like people, it's hard for them to resist liking you back.
Lois McMaster Bujold
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It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.
Henry Ward Beecher
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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.
Charlotte Bronte
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Friendship is one of the sweetest joys of life. Many might have failed beneath the bitterness of their trial had they not found a friend.
Charles Spurgeon
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The secret of happiness is this: Let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather that hostile.
Bertrand Russell
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Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them.
Publilius Syrus
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To like and dislike the same things, that is indeed true friendship.
Sallust
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Friends have all things in common.
Plato
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We secure our friends not by accepting favors but by doing them.
Thucydides
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