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“How often we find ourselves turning our backs on our actual friends that we may go and meet their ideal cousins.”
“We make our friends we make our enemies but God makes our next-door neighbour.”
“You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are but you must approach each man by the right door.”
“Without friends no one would choose to live though he had all other goods.”
“The more we love our friends the less we flatter them it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself.”
“In life it is difficult to say who do you the most mischief enemies with the worst intentions or friends with the best.”
“Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life a community of thought a rivalry of aim.”
“When my friends lack an eye I look at them in profile.”
“As in political so in literary action a man wins friends for himself mostly by the passion of his prejudices.”
“Never exaggerate your faults your friends will attend to that.”
“Don't tell your friends their social faults they will cure the fault and never forgive you.”
“Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with a part of another people are friends in spots.”
“Who friendship with a knave hath made Is judged a partner in the trade.”
“If we were all given by magic the power to read each other's thoughts I suppose the first effect would be to dissolve all friendships.”
“Friendship is like money easier made than kept.”
“It is a good thing to be rich it is a good thing to be strong but it is a better thing to be beloved of many friends.”
“Friendship is the perfection of love and superior to love it is love purified exalted proved by experience and a consent of minds. Love Madam may and love does often stop short of friendship.”
“Greater love has no man than this that a man lay down his life for his friends.”
“If there ever comes a day when we can't be together keep me in your heart I'll stay there forever.”
“Sympathy constitutes friendship but in love there is a sort of antipathy or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other and both together make up one whole.”
