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Friendship Quotes
"Friendship throws out deep roots in honest hearts, D'Artagnan. Believe me, it is only the evil-minded who deny friendship; they cannot understand it."
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"I lost some of my friends because I got so famous, people who just assumed that I would be different now. I felt like everyone hated me. That is the most unhappy time of my life."
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"We can get you a throne with snakes. I'll stand next to you and roar at anybody who fails to grovel. Fear Kate Daniels. She is a mighty and terrible ruler. Grendel can anoint the petitioners with his vomit. It'll be great . . ."
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"As in political so in literary action a man wins friends for himself mostly by the passion of his prejudices and the consistent narrowness of his outlook."
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"You can pick your friends, and you can pick your nose, but you can't pick your friends nose."
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"Pain is strong, aye - but friends' eyes, more strong." I told him that he knows next to nothing about me & I know nothing about him. He jabbed at his eyes & jabbed at mine, as if that single gesture were ample explanation."
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"Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods."
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"A friendliness, as of dwarfs shaking hands, was in the air..."
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"Misfortune shows those who are not really friends."
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"When I got across, I looked back and saw Tyson giving Grover a piggyback ride (or was it a goatyback ride?)."
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"If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business, because we'd be cynical. Well, that's nonsense. You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down."
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"Percy (to Annabeth): If I was going to pick one person in the world to reattach my head, I'd pick you.Silena: Awww . . . Percy, that is so sweet!Annabeth: Shut up, Silena."
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"True friendship is th treasure of forgiveness."
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"In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us."
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"A true friend does not make you win by making you the winner to the detriment of the true winner. He makes sure that you become a loser, not because he likes the way you fail, but to enlighten you on how it feels to be treated that way and to demonstrate that love and respect are not exclusive."
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"Friendships are nice. So is competence."
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"Friendship requires more time than poor busy men can usually command."
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"Is there any friendship, without forgiveness?"
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"When you have a good friend that really cares for you and tries to stick in there with you, you treat them like nothing. Learn to be a good friend because one day you're gonna look up and say I lost a good friend. Learn how to be respectful to your friends, don't just start arguments with them and don't tell them the reason, always remember your friends will be there quicker than your family. Learn to remember you got great friends, don't forget that and they will always care for you no matter what. Always remember to smile and look up at what you got in life."
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"I had to have company -- I was made for it, I think -- so I made friends with the animals. They are just charming, and they have the kindest disposition and the politest ways; they never look sour, they never let you feel that you are intruding, they smile at you and wag their tail, if they've got one, and they are always ready for a romp or an excursion or anything you want to propose."
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"Most friendship is feigning, most loving mere folly."
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"Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears."
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"I learned you can't trust the judgment of good friends."
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"A friend doesn't go on a diet because you are fat."
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"So that's what we did - rocketing down Sixth Avenue, dashing around the rest of the post-concert crowd, splashing our tracks until our ankles were soaked. You took the lead, and I started to lose my sprint. But then you looked back, stopped, and waited for me to catch up, for me to take your hand, for us to continue to run in the rain, drenched and enchanted, my words to Amanda no longer feeling like a requirement, but a foretelling."
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"The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, not the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when you discover that someone else believes in you and is willing to trust you with a friendship."
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"Before you contradict an old man, my fair friend, you should endeavor to understand him."
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"Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it."
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"Whenever you put a man on the Supreme Court he ceases to be your friend."
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"A friend who will never fail is the one who will stand by you regardless of the situation, time or location."
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"Often we can help each other most by leaving each other alone; at other times we need the hand-grasp and the word of cheer."
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"Friends become wiser together through a healthy clash of viewpoints."
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"The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends."
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"It's a long story. Want a refill?""No, let's start the steak. Where's the button?""Right here.""Well, push it.""Me? You offered to cook.""Ben Caxton, I will lie here and starve before I will get up to push a button six inches from your finger""As you wish." He pressed the button. "But don't forget who cooked dinner."
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"A friend gave me a rainbow as a gift, so I put it up in the sky so everyone could share."
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"Perhaps, after all, romance did not come into one's life with pomp and blare, like a gay knight riding down; perhaps it crept to one's side like an old friend through quiet ways; perhaps it revealed itself in seeming prose, until some sudden shaft of illumination flung athwart its pages betrayed the rhythm and the music, perhaps . . . perhaps . . . love unfolded naturally out of a beautiful friendship, as a golden-hearted rose slipping from its green sheath."
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"Laugh at your friends, and if your friends are sore; So much the better, you may laugh the more."
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"A true friend reminds you why you should believe in yourself when you have forgotten."
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"A friend to honesty and a foe to crime."
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"A friend is a person who always understands your preoccupations, even when other people do not perceive them at all."
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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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"Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship and pass the rosy wine."
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"Was it okay? Adam had turned down so many offers of help from Gansey. Money for school, money for food, money for rent. Pity and charity, Adam had thought. For so long, he'd wanted Gansey to see him as an equal, but it was possible that all this time, the only person who needed to see that was Adam. Now he could see that it wasn't charity Gansey was offering. It was just truth. And something else: friendship of the unshakable kind. Friendship you could swear on. That could be busted nearly to breaking and come back stronger than before."
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"We are all travellers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend."
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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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"Bad faith likes discourse on friendship and loyalty."
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"We are so fond of each other because our ailments are the same."
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"He loved books, books are cold but safe friends."
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