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Friendship Quotes
"Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back."
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"In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds."
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"The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne."
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"Before you contradict an old man, my fair friend, you should endeavor to understand him."
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"A friend is an open sky with whom you can open wings of your mind to fly."
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"A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have."
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"Are not lifelong friendships born at the moment when at last you meet another human being who has some inkling (but faint and uncertain even in the best) of that something which you were born desiring, and which, beneath the flux of other desires and in all the momentary silences between the louder passions, night and day, year by year, from childhood to old age, you are looking for, watching for, listening for? You have never had it."
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"Although a skillful flatterer is a most delightful companion if you have him all to yourself, his taste becomes very doubtful when he takes to complimenting other people."
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"They were the best sort of friends. The sort everyone hopes for but no one deserves, least of all me."
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"If it be the chief point of friendship to comply with a friend's notions and inclinations he possesses this is an eminent degree; he lies down when I sit, and walks when I walk, which is more that many good friends can pretend to do."
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"A true friend is like a soldier that never abandons his partner alone in the battle field."
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"Today I and one friend we have lost in the shopping center, loads of laugh enjoy and that's what suppose to be interesting... Not something which makes your day horrible."
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"In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge."
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"Two women at the same event wearing the same outfit is a disaster. But two women at the same event singing the same song is a party. And two women at the same event talking about Doris from Fame is a friendship for life. Fill yourself with words, choruses, and heroes, like you're supposed to fill your wardrobe with shoes, brooches, and belts."
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"Some of my friends who know me best say they wouldn't trade places with me for $1 million because of the pace I lead."
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"Friendships are the family we make - not the one we inherit. I've always been someone to whom friendship, elective affinities, is as important as family."
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"If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world."
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"Anna would like you, he thinks, looking into her face. Anna would like you."
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"Virtue is relative to the actions and ages of each of us in all that we do."
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"Later, I walked towards the dorm circle beside Alaska. The cicadas hummed their one-note song, just as they had at home in Florida. She turned to me as we made our way through the darkness and said,"When you're walking at night, do you ever get creeped out and even though it's silly and embarrassing you just want to run home?It seemed too secret and personal to admit to a virtual stranger but I told her, "Yeah, totally.For a moment, she was quiet. Then she grabbed my hand, whispered,"Run run run run run, and took off, pulling me behind her."
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"I tell my environmental friends that they have won. Every issue we look at from an energy perspective is now also looked at from an environmental perspective."
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"I was eleven years old, and I'd lost my mother, and my soul, and the Crucible gave me you. "It made us roommates, he says. I shake my head. "We were always more. "We were enemies."You were the centre of my universe, I say. "Everything else spun around you."
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"What a great blessing is a friend with a heart so trusty you may safely bury all your secrets in it."
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"I never could get on with representative individuals but people who existed on their own account and with whom it might therefore be possible to be friends."
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"We all have skeletons in our closets, but if you see someone who still loves you despite knowing about them, then that person is a true friend."
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"Friendship, like other kinds of altruism, is vulnerable to cheaters, and we have a special name for them: fair-weather friends. These sham friends reap the benefits of associating with a valuable person and mimic signs of warmth in an effort to become valued themselves. But when a little rain falls, they are nowhere in sight."
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"I own that I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive."
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"Never leave a friend behind. Friends are all we have to get us through this life--and they are the only things from this world that we could hope to see in the next."
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"Today I know this: when it comes time to take stock, the most painful wound is that of broken friendships; and there is nothing more foolish than to sacrifice a friendship to politics."
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"Every murderer is probably somebody's old friend."
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"Friends for life?Why? How long have I got?"
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"Love everyone but chose your friends with caution."
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"Your destination should determine who you choose as friend."
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"The quality of a friend is one who can touch your heart and soul from across the world or across the room. Trust that person who can see through the sadness behind your smile. The one who can hear your words in your silence, can feel your love in your anger, trust them. They are your REAL, TRUE and PURE friends."
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"Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends... Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts."
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"True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions."
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"Ronan's bedroom door burst open. Hanging on the door frame, Ronan leaned out to peer past Gansey. He was doing that thing where he looked like both the dangerous Ronan he was now and the cheerier Ronan he had been when Gansey first met him."Hold on," Gansey told Adam. Then, to Ronan: "Why would he be?""No reason. Just no reason." Ronan slammed his door.Gansey asked Adam, "Sorry. You still have that suit for the party?"Adam's response was buried in the sound of the second-story door falling open. Noah slouched in. In a wounded tone, he said, "He threw me out the window!"Ronan's voice sang out from behind his closed door: "You're already dead!"
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"Pat wanted to comfort him for something she did not understand. She slipped her little hand into his...he had a warm pleasant hand. They walked home together so."
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"A friend to kill time is a friend sublime."
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"We had the kind of conversations that only great friends can ever share. They were touched with magic."
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"A friendship has but one chief adversary and that is envy. It is sired by resentment with the potential consequence of unresolved estrangement." She looked at the woman in conflict and said, "Do not envy her but imagine what it took for her to have what you resent her for. Would you want to embark upon her journey instead of your own to procure it? You notice her abundance but overlook her losses; do not envy her because she would rather have your friendship than your envy." The woman looked at her and nodded in accord, "And how do you do that?" she asked. The woman sighed in reflective thought. "By changing the way you think."
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"As it is with the love of the body, so with the friendship of the mind, the full is only reached by admittance to the most retired places."
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"I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it."
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