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But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life; and thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine.

Thomas Jefferson

Certain flaws are necessary for the whole. It would seem strange if old friends lacked certain quirks.

Thomas Goethe

A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.

Baltasar Gracian

Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendship and intimacies, and soon their places will know them no more, and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will b.

William James

Friendship will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long.

Robert Lynd

Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking.

George Eliot

If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.

E. M. Forster

I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.

John Burrough

He who loses money losses much. He who loses a friend loses more. But he who loses faith loses all.

Henry H. Haskins

I love my kids, but I wouldn't want them for friends.

Janet Sorensen

The wise man does not permit himself to set up even in his own mind any comparisons of his friends. His friendship is capable of going to extremes with many people, evoked as it is by many qualities.

Charles Dudley Warner

He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, while he who has one enemy shall meet him everywhere.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.

Ralph Waldo Plutarch

A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.

Bernard Meltzer

Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.

Shirley Maclaine

You can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.

Laurence J. Peter

A friend is the one who comes in when the whole world has gone out.

Grace Pulpit

True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it be lost. -Charles Caleb Colton.

Charles Caleb Colton

A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.

{proverbs 17:17}

My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.

Henry Ford

Let your friends be the friends of your deliberate choice.

Henry Anonymous

It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.

Henry Epicurus

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

William Blake

Yes'm, old friends is always best, 'less you can catch a new one that's fit to make an old one out of.

Sarah Orne Jewett

One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.

George Santayana

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