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"At death our friends and relatives either draw nearer to us and are found out, or depart farther from us and are forgotten. Friends are as often brought nearer together as separated by death."
"To say that a man is your Friend, means commonly no more than this, that he is not your enemy. Most contemplate only what would be the accidental and trifling advantages of Friendship, as that the Friend can assist in time of need by his substance, or his influence, or his counsel. Even the utmost goodwill and harmony and practical kindness are not sufficient for Friendship, for Friends do not live in harmony merely, as some say, but in melody."
"Tell me about a person's family, friends, and community, and I'll tell you what his opinions are."
"Some dire misfortune to portend, no enemy can match a friend."
"He who has not the weakness of friendship has not the strength."
"Lovers may be and indeed generally are enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations."
"Father, you died once, salted down at fifty-nine, packed down like a big snow angel, wasn't that enough?"
"A friend is the hope of the heart."
"A man's fortunes are the fruit of his character. A man's friends are his magnetisms."
"One who's our friend is fond of us; one who's fond of us isn't necessarily our friend."
"People who have good relationships at home are more effective in the marketplace."
"If a friend of mine gave a feast, and did not invite me to it, I should not mind a bit. But if a friend of mine had a sorrow and refused to allow me to share it, I should feel it most bitterly."
"for someone such as myself, who is kind of feckless and immature, it's better to have rich friends than to be rich yourself, because then you have wealth without the responsibility. You get to go to their houses, and you get acquainted with a level of furniture that you cannot provide for yourself. Furniture, I think is the most important attribute of rich people."
"Self-love increases or diminishes for us the good qualities of our friends, in proportion to the satisfaction we feel with them; and we judge of their merit by the manner in which they act towards us."
"I don't think any woman in power really has a happy life unless she's got a large number of women friends ... because you sometimes must go and sit down and let down your hair with someone you can trust totally."
"There is nothing like a good friend to help you out when you are not in trouble."
"God, my parents, my wife. I don't have a lot of friends, because I'm always moving around. I don't drink, so I don't hang out in bars. But they've been very big in my life. Because they have helped to encourage me."
"Few are the friends of a mans self, most those of his circumstances."
"The friend anguish reveals is the slowest forgot."
"I have had lots of friends who've been affected by Aids and a very good friend of mine, Oscar Moore, died of Aids and I was with him in his last year quite a bit. And of course he was a man living in a very rich culture with a wealthy family who was able to afford health care."
