"Why should we assume the faults of our friend, or wife, or father, or child, because they sit around our hearth, or are said to have the same blood?"
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"God evidently does not intend us all to be rich, or powerful or great, but He does intend us all to be friends."
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"The only sin is limitation. As soon as you once come up with a man's limitations, it is all over with him. Has he talents? has heenterprise? has he knowledge? It boots not. Infinitely alluring and attractive was he to you yesterday, a great hope, a sea to swim in; now, you have found his shores, found it a pond, and you care not if you never see it again."
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"We talk of choosing our friends, but friends are self-elected."
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"How few of his friends' houses would a man choose to be at when he is sick."
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"When I'm with my friends' teenage children, I always say, 'Are your friends having sex yet?'"
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"Break not an ancient friendship; keep it hale; Stir round its roots, that it be green of heart; Let not the spirit of its growth depart: It is a power to brave the strongest gale."
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"I'm a tomboy now. I always wanted to fit in with my brother's group, so I climbed trees and played with lead soldiers. But I'm a woman's woman. I never understood women who don't have woman friends."
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"The rest of the crowd were friends of my fortune, not of me. [Lat., Caetera fortunae, non mea, turba fuit.]"
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"It's very important when making a friend to check and see if they have a private plane. People think a good personality trait in a friend is kindness or a sense of humor. No, in a friend a good personality trait is a Gulfstream."
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"All I can do is to urge on you to regard friendship as the greatest thing in the world; for there is nothing which so fits in with our nature, or is so exactly what we want in prosperity or adversity."
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"A true friend is a sort of second self."
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"Tis more dishonourable to distrust a friend than to be deceived by him."
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"The generality of friends puts us out of conceit with friendship; just as the generality of religious people puts us out of conceit with religion."
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"It is necessary to me, not simply to be but to utter, and I require utterance of my friends."
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"Our actual Friends are but distant relations of those to whom we are pledged."
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"When I was a beggarly boy, And lived in a cellar damp, I had not a friend nor a toy, But I had Aladdin's lamp."
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"Dear is my friend--yet from my foe, as from my friend, comes good: My friend shows what I can do, and my foe what I should."
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"The good four. Honest with ourselves and with whatever is friend to us; courageous toward the enemy; generous toward the vanquished; polite-always that is how the four cardinal virtues want us."
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"We should not talk about our friends: otherwise we will talk away the feeling of friendship."
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