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“I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.”

“It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.”

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

“If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.”

“You can't stay in your corner of the forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.”

“A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.”

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

“Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.”

“Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.”

“A true friend freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably.”

“You can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.”

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

“One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.”

“In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.”

“We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.”

“It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.”

“I cannot even imagine where I would be today were it not for that handful of friends who have given me a heart full of joy. Let's face it, friends make life a lot more fun.”

“Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”

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

“Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.”

“True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.”

“A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.”

“A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.”

“Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.”

“True friends stab you in the front.”

“A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.”

“Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.”

“Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.”

“There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first; when you learn to live for others, they will live for you.”

“How many slams in an old screen door? Depends how loud you shut it. How many slices in a bread? Depends how thin you cut it. How much good inside a day? Depends how good you live 'em. How much love inside a friend? Depends how much you give 'em.”

“The antidote for fifty enemies is one friend.”

“There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.”

“There is one friend in the life of each of us who seems not a separate person, however dear and beloved, but an expansion, an interpretation, of one's self, the very meaning of one's soul.”

“The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.”

“Why did you do all this for me?' he asked. 'I don't deserve it. I've never done anything for you.' 'You have been my friend,' replied Charlotte. 'That in itself is a tremendous thing.”

“Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart”