Friend - a person known well to another and regarded with liking, affection and loyalty.
What do we ask of friendship except to be taken for what we pretend to be - and without having to pretend.
We are keenly aware of the faults of our friends, but if they like us enough it doesn't matter.
The tender friendships one gives up, on parting, leave their bite on the heart, but also a curious feeling of a treasure somewhere buried.
One doesn't know, till one is a bit at odds with the world, how much one's friends who believe in one rather generously, mean to one.
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.
We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over; so in a series of kindnesses there is at last one which makes the heart run over.
Friends are always friends no matter how far you have to travel back in time. If you have memories together, there is always a piece of your friendship inside your heart.
A friend accepts us as we are yet helps us to be what we should.
No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.
Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
Friends and good manners will carry you where money won't go.
The road to a friend's house is never long.
The death of a friend is equivalent to the loss of a limb.
Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
Think where man's glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.
The antidote for fifty enemies is one friend.
A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.
There is one friend in the life of each of us who seems not a separate person, however dear and beloved, but an expansion, an interpretation, of one's self, the very meaning of one's soul.
A friend is someone you can call at any hour to laugh or cry or complain.
A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.
There are three faithful friends - an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
Before borrowing money from a friend, decide which you need most.
It takes a long time to grow an old friend.
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