"Death is a friend of ours; and he that is not ready to entertain him is not at home."
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"There is little friendship in the world, and least of all between equals."
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"Friendship redoubleth joys, and cutteth griefs in half."
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"Friends are thieves of time."
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"Those that want friends to open themselves unto are cannibals of their own hearts."
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"Loyalty is what we seek in friendship."
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"Friendship, on the other hand, serves a great host of different purposes all at the same time. In whatever direction you turn, it still remains yours. No barrier can shut it out. It can never be untimely; it can never be in the way. We need friendship all the time, just as much as we need the proverbial prime necessities of life, fire and water."
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"Nature loves nothing solitary, and always reaches out to something, as a support, which ever in the sincerest friend is most delightful."
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"We rejoice in the joys of our friends as much as we do our own, and we are equally grieved at their sorrows. Wherefore the wise people will feel toward their friends as they do toward themselves, and whatever labor they would encounter with a view to their own pleasure, they will encounter also for the sake of their friends."
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"Friendship is only a reciprocal conciliation of interests, and an exchange of good offices; it is a species of commerce out of which self-love always expects to gain something."
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"Though most of the friendships of the world ill deserve the name of friendships; yet a man may make use of them on occasion, as of a traffic whose returns are uncertain, and in which 'tis usual to be cheated."
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"Friendship is a traffic wherein self-love always proposes to be the gainer."
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"The reason we do not let our friends see the very bottom of our hearts is not so much distrust of them as distrust of ourselves."
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"As uncommon a thing as true love is, it is yet easier to find than true friendship."
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"The boldest stroke and best act of friendship is not to disclose our own failings to a friend, but to show him his own."
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"When we enlarge upon the affection our friends have for us, this is very often not so much out of a sense of gratitude as from a desire to persuade people of our own great worth, that can deserve so much kindness."
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"The grace of novelty and the length of habit, though so very opposite to one another, yet agree in this, that they both alike keepus from discovering the faults of our friends."
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"Self-love makes our friends appear more or less deserving in proportion to the delight we take in them, and the measures by whichwe judge of their worth depend upon the manner of their conversing with us."
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"In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us."
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"My friend, when a man has anything to tell in this world, the difficulty is not to make him tell it, but to prevent him from telling it too often."
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