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- Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.
- Sydney Smith (1771 - 1845)
- Man has three friends on whose company he relies. First, wealth which goes with him only while good fortune lasts. Second, his relatives; they go only as far as the grave, leave him there. The third friend, his good deeds, go with him beyond the grave.
- The Talmud
- The love of our private friends is the only preparatory exercise for the love of all men.
- John Henry Newman
- We learn our virtues from our friends who love us; our faults from the enemy who hates us. We cannot easily discover our real character from a friend. He is a mirror, on which the warmth of our breath impedes the clearness of the reflection.
- Ricther
- 'Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and have her nonsense respected.
- Charles Lamb (1775 - 1834)
- When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.
- Edgar Watson Howe (1853 - 1937)
- A friend should be one in whose understanding and virtue we can equally confide, and whose opinion we can value at once for its justness and its sincerity.
- Robert Hall
- False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports.
- Richard Burton
- The only way to have a friend is to be one.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
- The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.
- Joseph Addison (1672 - 1719)
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