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Friendship Quotes
"Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles."
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"Tell me something only you know and make a new friend."
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"The life of a man who deliberately runs through his fortune often becomes a business speculation; his friends, his pleasures, patrons, and acquaintances are his capital."
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"The biggest hurdle is figuring out who your friends are. Your real friends."
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"Oh how I've missed you, Holmes."
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"A friend who cannot at a pinch remember a thing or two that never happened is as bad as one who does not know how to forget."
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"Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love."
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"I use my friends rather as giglamps : There's another field I see: by your light. Over there's a hill. I widen my landscape."
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"Your experiences will be yours alone. But truth and best friendship will rarely if ever disappoint you."
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"A short time in the presence of the Friends (the Sufis) is better than a hundred years' sincere, obedient dedication."
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"The love between Uncle Dees and Roger was every bit as enduring as it had been immediate. They were never to be seen apart, man and dog, not since the moment of their introduction. Very quickly after their arrival in Amsterdam four years earlier, Roger had given Alma to understand that he was no longer her dog--that, in fact, he had never been her dog, nor had he ever been Ambrose's dog, but that he had been Dees' dog all along, by force of pure and plain destiny. The fact that Roger was born in distant Tahiti, whereas Dees van Devender resided in Holland, had been the result, Roger appeared to believe, of an unfortunate clerical error, now thankfully rectified."
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"Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant."
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"The reason for my starting a diary is that I have no real friend."
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"My desk, most loyal friend thank you. You've been with me on every road I've taken. My scar and my protection."
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"In criticism I will be bold, and as sternly, absolutely just with friend and foe. From this purpose nothing shall turn me."
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"The old man slowly raised himself from the piano stool, fixed those cheerful blue eyes piercingly and at the same time with unimaginable friendliness upon him, and said: "Making music together is the best way for two people to become friends. There is none easier. That is a fine thing. I hope you and I shall remain friends. Perhaps you too will learn how to make fugues, Joseph."
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"Blackjack," Percy said, "this is Piper and Jason. They're friends."The horse nickered."Uh, maybe later," Percy answered.Piper had heard that Percy could speak to horses, being the son of the horse lord Poseidon, but she'd never seen it in action."What does Blackjack want?" she asked."Donuts," Percy said. "Always donuts."
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"When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat."
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"I had a good teacher.""Better not have been Myrnin or I'll have to kick his predatory ass.""I mean you, dummy."
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"If you go out looking for friends, you're going to find they are very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you'll find them everywhere."
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"You know I'm no squealer, Harry.''You're a rummy. But no matter how rum dumb you get, if you ever talk about that, I promise you.''I'm a good man,' he said. 'You oughtn't to talk to me like that.''They can't make it fast enough to keep you a good man,' I told him. But I didn't worry about him any more because who was going to believe him?"
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"Before I could figure out how to apologize for being such an idiot, she tackled me with a hug, then pulled away just as quickly. "I'm glad you're not a guinea pig.""Me, too." I hoped my face wasn't as red as it felt."
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"We need our goats! I yelled.I waded through the crowd until I reached our chariot. I grabbed Otis's face and pressed my forehead against his."Testing, I whispered. "Is this goat on? Thor, can you hear me?"You have beautiful eyes, Otis told me."
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"Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings."
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"Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans - born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace."
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"Friendship however is a plant which cannot be forced -- true friendship is no gourd spring up in a night and withering in a day."
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"Friendship is something in the soul. It is a thing one feels. It is not a return for something."
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"We are sun and moon, dear friend; we are sea and land. It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is: each the other's opposite and complement."
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"He didn't have many friends, but he valued his friendship with Angel. She was kind and giving and one of the few women who didn't look at him like he was an un-caged tiger."
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"Commander Tool Belt" Jason said."Bad Boy Supreme" Piper said."Chef Leo the Tofu Taco Expert."They laughed and told stories about Leo valdez, their best friend. They stayed on the roof until dawn rose, and Piper started to believe they could have a fresh start. It might even be possible to tell a new story in which Leo was still out there.Somewhere..."
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"We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade."
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"There is no man that imparteth his joys to his friends but he joyeth the more and no man that imparteth his griefs to his friends but he grieveth the less."
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"If one's friends do not openly laugh at him, they are not in fact his friends."
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"Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?"
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"A loan is the scissors of friendship.A man's own tongue may cut his throat.The cage has no value without the bird."
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"A man Sir should keep his friendship in constant repair."
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"Now she and I sit together in her room and eat chocolate, and I tell her that in a very long time when we both to go heaven, we should try to get chairs next to each other, close to the dessert table."
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"So long as we love, we serve; so long as we are loved by others, I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend."
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"If you can sit in silence with a person for half an hour and yet be entirely comfortable, you and that person can be friends. If you cannot, friends you'll never be and you need not waste time in trying."
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"My friends and the people who are close to me know what I am. And that is enough."
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"A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still: you must not want to see everything."
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"But there are times," said Charlotte, "when it is necessary and an act of friendship to write nothing rather than not to write."
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"The short story is like an old friend who calls whenever he is in town. We are happy to hear from it; we casually fan the embers of past intimacies, and buy it lunch."
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"Many a person has held close, throughout their entire lives, two friends that always remained strange to one another, because one of them attracted by virtue of similarity, the other by difference."
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"Pity may represent little more than the impersonal concern which prompts the mailing of a check, but true sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of one's soul."
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"Though I can make a friend in an hour, it will take a lifetime to cultivate a friendship."
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"I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself."
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"No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow."
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