Friendship quotes
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"True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island... to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing."
"A drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gall. So with men. If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey which catches his heart, which, say what he will, is the highroad to his reason."
"If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend."
"To cement a new friendship, especially between foreigners or persons of a different social world, a spark with which both were secretly charged must fly from person to person, and cut across the accidents of place and time."
"We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit."
"A friend is another I."
"Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache: do be my enemy for friendship's sake."
"A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud."
"The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne."
"I die adoring God, loving my friends, not hating my enemies, and detesting superstition."
"Friendship is the only cure for hatred, the only guarantee of peace."
"We only need to be as true to others as we are to ourselves, that there may be grounds enough for friendship."
"So, lively brisk old fellow, don't let age get you down. White hairs or not, you can still be a lover."
"I'm so happy because today I found my friends - they're in my head."
"A friend is the only person you will let into the house when you are Turning Out Drawers."
"The better part of one's life consists of his friendships."
"Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used."
"There is no friend as loyal as a book."
"A friend in need is a friend indeed!"
"Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself."
