Oh, how you wrong our friendship, valiant youth.
With friends there is not such a word as debt:
Where amity is ty'd with band of truth,
All benefits are there in common set.
Lady Elizabeth Carew (Cary or Carey)
Quotes , Source: Marian
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Two may talk together under the same roof for many years, yet
never really meet; and two others at first speech are old
friends.
Mary Catherwood
Quotes , Source: Mackinac and Lake Stories--Marianson
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It is a common saying that many pecks of salt must be eaten
before the duties of friendship can be discharged.
[Lat., Vulgo dicitur multos modios salis simul edendos esse, ut
amicitia munus expletum sit.]
Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero)
Quotes , Source: De Amicitia (XIX)
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Then come the wild weather, come sleet or come snow,
We will stand by each other, however it blow.
Simon Dach
Quotes , Source: Annie of Tharaw (l. 7), (Longfellow's translation)
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Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship;
and pass the rosy wine.
Charles Dickens
Quotes , Source: The Old Curiosity Ship (ch. VII)
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What is the odds so long as the fire of souls is kindled at the
taper of conwiviality, and the wing of friendship never moults a
feather?
Charles Dickens
Quotes , Source: The Old Curiosity Shop (ch. II)
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For friendship, of itself a holy tie,
Is made more sacred by adversity.
John Dryden
Quotes , Source: The Hind and the Panther (pt. III, l. 47)
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Friendship that flows from the heart cannot be frozen by adversity, as the water that flows from the spring cannot congeal in winter.
James Fenimore Cooper
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Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.'
Oliver Goldsmith
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Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art ... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.
Clive Staples (Jack) Lewis
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