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| He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, and he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere. | | Ralph Waldo Emerson | |
| He who hath many friends hath none. | | Aristotle | |
| I am a friend of the working man, and I would rather be his friend than be one | | Clarence Darrow | |
| I do not want a friend who smiles when I smile, who weeps when I weep; for my shadow in the pool can do better than that. | | Confucius | |
| I hate it in friends when they come too late to help. | | Euripides | |
| I would prefer as friend a good man ignorant than one more clever who is evil too. | | Euripides | |
| If I were to name the three most precious resources of life, I should say books, friends, and nature; and the greatest of these, at least the most constant and always at hand, is nature. | | John Burroughs | |
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| In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds. | | Aristotle | |
| It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues. | | Abraham Lincoln | |
| It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend. | | William Blake | |
| It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties, we know they won't save us any more than love did. | | F. Scott Fitzgerald | |
| It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help. | | Epicurus | |
| It takes your enemy and your friend, working together to hurt you to the heart; the one to slander you and the other to get the news to you | | Mark Twain | |
| Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose. | | Tennessee Williams | |
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| Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart | | Eleanor Roosevelt | |
| Memory is the friend of wit, but the treacherous ally of invention; there are many books that owe their success to two things; good memory of those who write them, and the bad memory of those who read them | | Charles Caleb Colton | |
| My friend invented Cliff's Notes. When I asked him how he got such a great idea, he said, "Well, first I... I just... well, to make a long story short..." | | Stephen Wright | |
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