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| We need very strong ears to hear ourselves judged frankly, and because there are few who can endure frank criticism without being stung by it, those who venture to criticize us perform a remarkable act of friendship, for to undertake to wound or offe |
| Michel de Montaigne |
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| We seek our friend not sacredly, but with an adulterate passion which would appropriate him to ourselves |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| Whenever a friend succeeds a little something in me dies. |
| Gore Vidal |
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| Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness. |
| Seneca |
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| While your friend holds you affectionately by both your hands, you are safe, for you can watch both his. |
| Ambrose Bierce |
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| Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit. |
| Aristotle |
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| Women can form a friendship with a man very well; but to preserve it - to that end a slight physical antipathy must probably help. |
| Friedrich Nietzsche |
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| Yes, we must ever be friends; and of all who offer you friendship let me be ever the first, the truest, the nearest and dearest! |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
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| You can't tell your friend you've been cuckolded; even if he doesn't laugh at you, he may put the information to personal use |
| Michel de Montaigne |
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| 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 |
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| You find out who your real friends are when you're involved in a scandal. |
| Elizabeth Taylor |
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| You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give. |
| Kahlil Gibran |
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| You just don't luck into things as much as you'd like to think you do. You build step by step, whether it's friendships or opportunities. |
| Barbara Bush |
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| Your friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you. |
| Elbert Hubbard |
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