Friendship will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long.
Robert Lynd
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Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking.
George Eliot
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I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.
John Burrough
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He who loses money losses much. He who loses a friend loses more. But he who loses faith loses all.
Henry H. Haskins
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The wise man does not permit himself to set up even in his own mind any comparisons of his friends. His friendship is capable of going to extremes with many people, evoked as it is by many qualities.
Charles Dudley Warner
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He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, while he who has one enemy shall meet him everywhere.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.
Plutarch
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The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.
Benjamin Disraeli
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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.
Bernard Meltzer
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Remember, we all stumble, every one of us. That's why it's a comfort to go hand in hand.
Emily Kimbrough
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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.
Laurence J. Peter
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True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it be lost. -Charles Caleb Colton.
Charles Caleb Colton
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It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.
Epicurus
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Yes'm, old friends is always best, 'less you can catch a new one that's fit to make an old one out of.
Sarah Orne Jewett
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I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.
Thomas A. Edison
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Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
George Washington
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I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing. Thanks to Maria Marquis -Katherine Mansfield.
Katherine Mansfield
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The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.
Joseph Addison
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