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| A friend is someone who will help you move. A real friend is someone who will help you move a body. (Unknown) |
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| Never explain--your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway. (Elbert Hubbard) |
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| Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate. (Thomas Jones) |
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| My mother used to say that there are no strangers, only friends you haven't met yet. She's now in a maximum security twilight home in Australia. (Dame Edna Everage) |
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| Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods. (Aristotle Nichomachean Ethics) |
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| Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment. (Seneca) |
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| There was a definite process by which one made people into friends, and it involved talking to them and listening to them for hours at a time. (Rebecca West) |
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| It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship. (Colette The Pure and the Impure 1932) |
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| Friendship make prosperity more shining and lessens adversity by dividing and sharing it. (Cicero On Friendship 44 B.C.) |
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| True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy to pomp and noise; it arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions. (Joseph Addison The Spectator March 17 1911) |
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| The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) |
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| When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends. (Japanese Proverb) |
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| In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends. (John Churton Collins) |
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| We are advertis'd by our loving friends. (William Shakespeare) |
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| Forsake not an old friend; for the new is not comparable to him: a new friend is as new wine; when it is old, thou shalt drink it with pleasure. (Bible) |
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| The advice of friends must be received with a judicious reserve; we must not give ourselves up to it and follow it blindly, whether right or wrong. (Pierre Charron) |
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| Reprove thy friend privately; commend him publicly. (Solon) |
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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. True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation. (George Washington) |
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| If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself alone. A man should keep his friendships in constant repair. (Samuel Johnson) |
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| Never refuse any advance of friendship, for if nine out of ten bring you nothing, one alone may repay you. (Madame de Tencin) |
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| Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends. (Czech Proverb) |
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| Purchase not friends by gifts; when thou ceasest to give, such will cease to love. (Thomas Fuller) |
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| Get not your friends by bare compliments, but by giving them sensible tokens of your love. (Socrates) |
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| You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you. (Dale Carnegie) |
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| The man who backbites an absent friend, nay, who does not stand up for him when another blames him, the man who angles for bursts of laughter and for the repute of a wit, who can invent what he never saw, who cannot keep a secret - that man is black at heart: mark and avoid him. (Cicero) |
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