"Happy is the house that shelters a friend."
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"But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold."
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"Love and dignity cannot share the same abode."
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"The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words."
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"It pays to know the enemy - not least because at some time you may have the opportunity to turn him into a friend."
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"I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society."
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"My fair one, let us swear an eternal friendship."
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""Stay" is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary."
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"Friendship multiplies blessings and...soothes the soul."
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"Friends share all things."
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"You find out who your real friends are when you're involved in a scandal."
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"My friends are my estate."
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"A false friend and a shadow attend only while the sun shines."
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"If you would keep your secret from an enemy, tell it not to a friend."
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"Sits like a man, but smiles like a reptile."
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"Humility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in the blood of his followers and the sacrifices of his friends."
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"I like friends as I like music - when I am in the mood."
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"You've got a lotta nerve to say you are my friend. When I was down you just stood there a grinin"
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"If it's very painful for you to criticize your friends - you're safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that's the time to hold your tongue."
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"We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over; so in a series of kindnesses there is at last one which makes the heart run over."
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