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Be more prompt to go to a friend in adversity than in prosperity.
Be more prompt to go to a friend in adversity than in prosperity.
A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and read more
A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often - just to save it from drying out completely.
Friendship should be a private pleasure, not a public boast. I loathe those braggarts who are forever trying to invest read more
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.
Most people enjoy the inferiority of their best friends.
Most people enjoy the inferiority of their best friends.
It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior read more
It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality.
Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a read more
Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a family and clan, whose blood is in your own veins. Love between a man and a woman is founded on the mating instinct and is not free from desire and self-seeking. But to have a friend and to be true under any and all trials is the mark of a man!
The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
Cherish the friend who tells you a harsh truth, wanting ten times more to tell you a loving lie.
Cherish the friend who tells you a harsh truth, wanting ten times more to tell you a loving lie.
True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.
True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.
