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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.
John Mason Brown
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Friendship should be a responsibility, never an opportunity.
Anonymous
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Friendship should be more than biting time can sever.
T. S. Eliot
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Friendship will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long.
Robert Lynd
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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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Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.
James F. Byrnes
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Friendship's the privilege of private men; for wretched greatness knows no blessing so substantial.
Nahum Tate
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Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.
Charles Caleb Colton
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Friendships are fragile things and require as much care in handling as any other fragile and precious thing.
Randolph S. Bourne
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Friendships begin with liking or gratitude roots that can be pulled up.
George Eliot
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Friendships begun in this world will be taken up again, never to be broken off.
St. Francis De Sales
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Friendships that have stood the test of time and chance are surely best, Brows may wrinkle, hair grow gray, Friendship never knows decay.
Anonymous
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Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved.
Joseph Addison
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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.
Hilaire Belloc
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Give me one friend, just one, who meets The needs of all my varying moods.
Esther M. Clark
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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!
George Canning
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Give me work to do, Give me health, Give me joy in simple things, Give me an eye for beauty, A tongue for truth, A heart that loves, A mind that reasons, A sympathy that understands. Give me neither malice nor envy, But a true kindness And a noble common sense. At the close of each day Give me a book And a friend with whom I can be silent.
S. M. Frazier
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Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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God gives us our relatives -- thank God we can choose our friends.
Ethel Watts Mumford
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Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.
Izaak Walton
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