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| The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend. I have no wealth to bestow on him. If he knows that I am happy in loving him, he will want no other reward. Is not friendship divine in this? | | Henry David Thoreau | |
| The nearest I can make it out, "Love your Enemies" means, "Hate your Friends" | | Benjamin Franklin | |
| The only service a friend can really render is to keep your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself | | George Bernard Shaw | |
| There are a good many fools who call me a friend, and also a good many friends who call me a fool. | | Gilbert K. Chesterton | |
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| There are people who are very resourceful, at being remorseful, and who apparently feel that the best way to make friends is to do something terrible and then make amends | | Ogden Nash | |
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| We are all travellers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend | | Robert Louis Stevenson | |
| We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them. | | Evelyn Waugh | |
| We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need. | | Epicurus | |
| We must either outlive our friends you know, or our friends must outlive us; and I see no man that would hesitate about the choice | | Samuel Johnson | |
| We want all our friends to tell us our bad qualities; it is only the particular ass that does so whom we can't tolerate | | William James | |
| Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them. | | A. A. Milne | |
| What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies. | | Aristotle | |
| When in reading we meet with any maxim that may be of use, we should take it for our own, and make an immediate application of it, as we would of the advice of a friend whom we have purposely consulted | | Charles Caleb Colton | |
| When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat. | | Henry Miller | |
| You do not know how much they mean to me, my friends, and how, how rare and strange it is, to find in a life composed so much of odds and ends… to find a friend who has these qualities, who has, and gives those qualities upon which friendship lives. How much it means that I say this to you -without these friendships - life, what cauchemar! | | T.S. Eliot | |
| Your friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you. | | Elbert Hubbard | |
