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Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day read more
Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend -- or a meaningful day.
To find a friend one must close one eye -- to keep him, two.
To find a friend one must close one eye -- to keep him, two.
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!
Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy. read more
Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things: and in that sense it is more ideal and less subject to trouble than marriage is.
A faithful friend is a strong defense: and he that hath found one hath found a treasure.
A faithful friend is a strong defense: and he that hath found one hath found a treasure.
Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the read more
Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.
When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up read more
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.
Friendships are fragile things and require as much care in handling as any other fragile and precious thing.
Friendships are fragile things and require as much care in handling as any other fragile and precious thing.
