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| A child will make two dishes at an entertainment for friends; and when the family dines alone, the fore or hind quarter will make a reasonable dish, and seasoned with a little pepper or salt will be very good boiled on the fourth day, especially in w | | Jonathan Swift | |
| A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we then know how to meet him. | | Aesop | |
| A faithful friend is a strong defense, and he that hath found such a one hath found a treasure. | | Bible | |
| A faithful friend is the medicine of life | | Bible | |
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| A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow. | | William Shakespeare | |
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| A friend who cannot at a pinch remember a thing or two that never happened is as bad as one who does not know how to forget. | | Samuel Butler | |
| A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand. Is not the mountain far more awe-inspiring and more clearly visible to one passing through the valley than to those who inhabit the mountain? | | Kahlil Gibran | |
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| A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out. | | Walter Winchell | |
| A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends | | George Washington | |
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| A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down. | | Arnold H. Glasgow | |
| An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind. | | Buddha | |
| Be slow to fall into friendship, but when thou art in, continue firm and constant. | | Socrates | |
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| Contrary to general belief, I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first | | Peter Ustinov | |
| Deaf, giddy, helpless, left alone, To all my friends a burden grown; No more I hear my church's bell Than if it rang out for my knell; At thunder now no more I start Than at the rumbling of a cart | | Jonathan Swift | |
