To find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing.
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To find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing.
Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love.
True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island... to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing.
Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.
You can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.
The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.
Your friend is your needs answered.
I have a respect for Elvis and my friendship. It ain't my business what he did in private. The only thing I want to know is, 'Was he my friend?', 'Did I enjoy him as a performer?', 'Did he give the world of entertainment something?' - and the answer is YES on all accounts. The other jazz just don't matter.
You can't stay in your corner of the forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.
True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.
It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.
My friendship with Mitzi was like the friendship that many children have with their pets. My mother and father thought it was "good for me" to have a dog for a companion. Well it was good for me, but it was only many years after she died that I began to understand how good it was, and why.
I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.
Friends are the siblings God never gave us.
He who does not see the whole world in his friends, does not deserve that the world should hear of him.
I would not enter on my list of friends_x000D_ _x000D_ (Though graced with polished manners and fine sense,_x000D_ _x000D_ Yet wanting sensibility) the man_x000D_ _x000D_ Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm.
One friend in a life-time is much; two are many; three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.
Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.
I find friendship to be like wine, raw when new, ripened with age, the true old man's milk and restorative cordial.
Every man should have a fair-sized cemetary in which to bury the faults of his friends.
There is magic in the memory of schoolboy friendships; it softens the heart, and even affects the nervous system of those who have no heart.
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