"Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature."
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"Do not have evil-doers for friends, do not have low people for friends: have virtuous people for friends, have for friends the best of men."
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"Give Honest and Sincere Appreciation."
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"Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend - or a meaningful day."
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"Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities."
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"Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation."
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"A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often - just to save it from drying out completely."
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"The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship."
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"Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness."
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"It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business."
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"The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best."
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"Misanthropes have some admirable if paradoxical virtues. It is no exaggeration to say that we are among the nicest people you are likely to meet. Because good manners build sturdy walls, our distaste for intimacy makes us exceedingly cordial "ships that pass in the night." As long as you remain a stranger we will be your friend forever."
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"Having one child makes you a parent; having two you are a referee."
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"I get by with a little help from my friends."
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"The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing...that is a friend who cares."
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"Be true to your work, your word, and your friend."
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"A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy."
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"Never close your lips to those whom you have already opened your heart."
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"Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart."
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"Next, take a look at the quality of the people who surround you. Do these people back you emotionally, or not? If they don't back you, are they at least passive? If not, get rid of them. Sometimes it is hard to drop off your mates at the great bus stop of life. But remember, your energy will only rise in direct relationship to the number of things you are able to get rid of - not to the things you acquire. By getting rid of things, attitudes, encumbrances, and blocks of one kind or another, things fly."
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