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Friendship Quotes
"Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship."
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"We often choose a friend as we do a mistress - for no particular excellence in themselves, but merely from some circumstance that flatters our self-love."
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"Show me a genuine case of platonic friendship, and I shall show you two old or homely faces."
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"Everybody, my friend, everybody lives for something better to come. That's why we want to be considerate of every man - Who knows what's in him, why he was born and what he can do?"
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"Friendship... is not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything."
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"I took six months off, finished high school, and hung out with friends."
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"Reprove your friends in secret, praise them openly."
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"We became friends as we became a band. Our friendship evolved as the band evolved. It had its ups and downs, but it was mostly ups for the four of us. We got along well almost all of the time. Hey! We liked each other and we still do."
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"It takes a long time to grow an old friend."
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"Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious."
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"Why my interest in writers? Well, I'm one, and many of my friends are writers. I know what it's like to write. I'm interested in the creative process. I'm fascinated by the disparity between who we are on the outside, and what we have bubbling away inside us."
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"You know, my friends, with what a brave carouse I made a Second Marriage in my house; favored old barren reason from my bed, and took the daughter of the vine to spouse."
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"A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept."
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"One sure way to lose another woman's friendship is to try to improve her flower arrangements."
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"My father was a soccer player. All my friends played basketball though, so I stuck with basketball."
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"It's a play where something went wrong, 'Cause it's five hours, twelve minutes long. If you sit there, my friend, From beginning 'til end, Then your bladder better be strong!"
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"He will never have true friends who is afraid of making enemies."
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"I lie around the floor with my cats Billy and Jazz or watch DVDs with my best friends."
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"Jack Dempsey and I became friends in the very early 1920s."
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"Where there are friends there is wealth."
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"True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice."
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"Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies."
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"All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry."
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"I ain't got no people. I seen the guys that go around on the ranches alone. That ain't no good. They don't have no fun. After a long time they get mean. They get wantin' to fight all the time. . . 'Course Lennie's a God damn nuisance most of the time, but you get used to goin' around with a guy an' you can't get rid of him."
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"Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune."
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"To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart."
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"Is there any pleasure on earth as great as the circle of Christian friends by a good fire?"
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"The most called-upon prerequisite of a friend is an accessible ear."
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"Most of the stuff I do on the show comes out of me just trying to make my friends laugh."
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"Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend."
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"My closest friend is canine. I have precious few close friends, and most of them are not actors."
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"If she was a victim of any kind, she was a victim of her friends."
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"My only sketch profile of heaven is a large blue sky and larger than the biggest I have seen in June-and in it are my friends-every one of them."
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"Christina Aguilera and I are friends no matter what the media makes up."
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"My friends are everything without me but I am nothing without my friends."
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"I am more a friend of art than a producer of painting."
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"I am friends with Demi. Don't believe anything you read."
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"I had a lot of friends in high school, but I was never the wild party girl. Never have been, never plan to be!"
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"Forget the damned motor car and build the cities for lovers and friends."
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"Harmony with land is like harmony with a friend; you cannot cherish his right hand and chop off his left."
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"Admonish your friends privately, but praise them openly."
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"No guest is so welcome in a friend's house that he will not become a nuisance after three days."
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"No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend till he is unhappy."
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"A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else."
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"I am single and childless, but I have lots of friends and I am an aunt to three lovely children."
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"I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your friends. To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone."
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"Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty."
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