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• Yes, we are [friends] and I do like to pass the day with you in serious and inconsequential chatter. I wouldn't mind washing up beside you, dusting beside you, reading the back half of the paper while you read the front. We are friends and I would miss you, do miss you and think of you very often. I don't want to lose this happy space where I have found someone who is smart and easy and doesn't bother to check their diary when we arrange to meet.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Friendship, Smart, Reading

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• Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm & constant.

  Socrates

  Friendship, Art, Fall

  Socrates, Plato, Aristotle (1967). “Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study”

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• A part of you has grown in me. And so you see, it's you and me together forever and never apart, maybe in distance, but never in heart

  Unknown

  Friendship Memories

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• True friendship comes when the silence between two people is comfortable

  Unknown

  Friendship, Best Friend, Real Friends

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• Except in cases of necessity, which are rare, leave your friend to learn unpleasant things from his enemies; they are ready enough to tell them.

  Unknown

  Friendship, Real Friends, Cute Friendship

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• Friendship will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long.

  Robert Staughton Lynd

  Funny, Friendship, Humor

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• The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.

  Joseph Addison

  Friendship, Real Friends, Secret

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• A friend is one who believes in you when you have ceased to believe in yourself.

  Unknown

  Friendship Memories

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• Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Love, Friendship, Best Friend

  The Motto Book (1907)

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• If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair.

  Samuel Johnson

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Quoted in James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791) (entry for 1755)

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• The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.

  Unknown

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• Constant use had not worn ragged the fabric of their friendship.

  Dorothy Parker

  Friendship, Use, Fabric

  Dorothy Parker (2002). “Complete Stories”, p.259, Penguin

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  No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

  Alice Walker

  Friendship, Fake Friends, Memorable

  Alice Walker (2013). “The Alice Walker Collection: Non-Fiction”, p.17, Hachette UK

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• A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Cute, Friendship, Thankful

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• Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.

  Aristotle

  Best Friend, Friendship, Real Friends

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• It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Love, Motivational, Friendship

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• A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.

  Bernard Meltzer

  Friendship, Thank You, True Friend

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• Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.

  James F. Byrnes

  Friendship, Beautiful, Self

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• The friend who holds your hand and says the wrong thing is made of dearer stuff than the one who stays away.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Friendship, Best Friend, Birthday

  Barbara Kingsolver (2011). “High Tide in Tucson”, p.88, Faber & Faber

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• Growing apart doesn't change the fact that for a long time we grew side by side; our roots will always be tangled. I'm glad for that.

  Ally Condie

  Friendship Memories

  Ally Condie (2010). “Matched”, p.147, Penguin UK

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• The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Motivational, Friendship, Relationship

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1972). “Early Lectures: 1838-1842”, p.253, Harvard University Press

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• Friendship that flows from the heart cannot be frozen by adversity, as the water that flows from the spring cannogt congeal in winter.

  James F. Cooper

  Motivational, Friendship, Spring

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• I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.

  Plutarch

  Friendship, Change, Philosophy

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• Tis a great confidence in a friend to tell him your faults; greater to tell him his.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Friendship, Real Friends, My Best Friend

  Benjamin Franklin (2013). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.38, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• A friend is a person who goes around saying nice things about you behind your back.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nice, Cute Friendship, Behind Your Back

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