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The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him read more
The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.
Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
Love and esteem are the first principles of friendship; it is always imperfect if either of these two are wanting.
Love and esteem are the first principles of friendship; it is always imperfect if either of these two are wanting.
False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation read more
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.
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your read more
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
Friendship is like peeing on yourself: everyone can see it, but only you get the warm feeling that it brings.
Friendship is like peeing on yourself: everyone can see it, but only you get the warm feeling that it brings.
Think where man's glory most begins and ends, And say my glory was I had such friends.
Think where man's glory most begins and ends, And say my glory was I had such friends.
The friendship we share grows amidst the craggy rock pond; reeds of water spray fireflies scented with bonfires.
The friendship we share grows amidst the craggy rock pond; reeds of water spray fireflies scented with bonfires.
It is a common saying that many pecks of salt must be eaten
before the duties of friendship can read more
It is a common saying that many pecks of salt must be eaten
before the duties of friendship can be discharged.
[Lat., Vulgo dicitur multos modios salis simul edendos esse, ut
amicitia munus expletum sit.]
