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Friends

"To make a friend Takes a moment
To be a friend Takes a lifetime"

"Friends do not live in harmony merely, as some say, but in melogy."

"Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with."

"There are three types of friends:
those like food, without which you can't live;
those like medicine, which you need occasionally;
and those like an illness, which you never want."

"If you have one true friend you have more than you share."

"It is said that love is blind.
Friendship, on the other hand, is clairvoyant."

"The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship."

"I want a sofa, as I want a friend, upon which I can repose familiarly."

"Most people enjoy the inferiority of their friends."

"Animals are such agreeable friends they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms."

"One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible."

"A friend knows how to allow for mere quantity in your talk, and only replies to the quality."

"To find a friend one must close one eye: to keep him, two."

"Think twice before you speak to a friend in need."

"Friendship is like money, easier made than kept."

"Constant use had not worn ragged the fabric of their friendship."

"To want friendship is a great fault...
Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy,
like the joys afforded by art, or life..."

"Money can't buy friends, but you can get a better class of enemy."

"Friends to borrow my books and set wet glasses on them."

"If you want a person's faults go to those who love him.
They will not tell you, but they know."

"A companion loves some agreeable qualities which a man
may possess, but a friend loves the man himself."

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