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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)
Friendship will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long.: Robert Lynd (1879 - 1949)
Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendship and intimacies, and soon their places will know them no more, and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will by the roadside, expecting them to "keep" by force of inertia.: William James (1842 - 1910)
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
True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.: C. C. Colton
Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking.: George Eliot (1819 - 1880)
Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings.: Jean De La Bruyere (1645 - 1696)

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