"True friendship is like sound health;
the value of it is seldom known until it be lost."
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"Each friend represents a world in us,
a world possibly not born until they arrive,
and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born."
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"A real friend is one who walks in
when the rest of the world walks out."
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"A friend is someone who knows the
song in your heart,
and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words."
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"Don't walk in front of me, I may not
follow.
Don't walk behind me, I may not lead.
Walk beside me and be my friend."
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"Two are better than one; because they
have a good reward for their labour.
For if they fall,
the one will lift up his fellow: but woe to him that is alone when
he falleth;
for he hath not another to help him up."
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"Two may talk together under the same
roof for many years,
yet never really meet; and two others at first speech are old
friends."
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"Friendship is unnecessary, like
philosophy, like art...
It has no survival value; rather is one of those things that give
value to survival."
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"Friendship is a pretty full-time
occupation if you really are friendly with somebody.
You canít have too many friends because then youíre just not really
friends."
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"Give others freedom to be themselves.
Appreciate the differences between their ways an yours."
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"I find friendship to be like wine,
raw when new, ripened with age, the true old man's milk and
restorative cordial."
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"Friend - a person known well to
another and regarded with liking, affection and loyalty."
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"A new friendship is like an unripened
fruit - it may become either an orange or a lemon"
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"Anybody can sympathise with the
sufferings of a friend,
but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend's
success."
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"Friendship with oneself is
all-important because without it one
cannot be friends with anyone else in the world."
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"What sunshine is to flowers, smiles
are to humanity. They are but trifles,
to be sure but, scattered along life's pathway,
the good they do is inconceivable."
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"The happiest moments my heart knows
are those in which it is pouring forth its affections to a few
esteemed characters."
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