"The tender friendships one gives up, on parting, leave their bite on the heart, but also a curious feeling of a treasure somewhere buried."
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"I never had any friends later on like the ones I had when I was 12 - Jesus, did you?"
"A true friend is someone who never gets tired listening to your pointless drama over and over again."
"One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible."
"Hold a true friend with both your hands."
"Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles."
"There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship."
"True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance."
"Friends... they cherish one another's hopes. They are kind to one another's dreams."
"Your best friend and worst enemy are both in this room right now. It's not your neighbor right or left - and it's not God or the devil - it's you."
"A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company"
"The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it."
"The past speaks to us in a thousand voices, warning and comforting, animating and stirring to action."
"The best friend will probably acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is founded on the talent for friendship."
"You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends."
"Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious."
"To find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing."
"Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?"
"'Cause we are each other's angels And we meet when it is time We keep each other going And we show each other signs"
"We love those who know the worst of us and don't turn their face away."