“Friendship will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long.”
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Source: The Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield: Volume II: 1918-September 1919
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Source: Cakes and Ale
“We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits.”
Source: Mr. Maugham Himself
“God gives us our relatives – thank God we can choose our friends.”
“The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away.”
“It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”
Source: Interesting Anecdotes, Memoirs, Allegories, Essays, and Poetical Fragments: Tending to Amuse the Fancy, and Inculcate Morality
Source: Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims
“However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.”
“Acquaintance. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.”
“It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.”
Source: The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake
“The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.”
Source: The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
Source: Laugh Again / Hope Again: Two Books to Inspire a Joy-Filled Life
“Friends come and go but enemies accumulate.”
Source: Murphy's Law: The 26th Anniversary Edition: The 26th Anniversary Edition
“If you want peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.”
“Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
Source: Bite-Size Twain: Wit and Wisdom from the Literary Legend
“No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.”
Source: The Alice Walker Collection: Non-Fiction
Source: The Life of General Washington: First President of the United States
Source: The Writings of George Washington: pt. I. Official letters relating to the French war, and private letters before the American revolution: March, 1754-May, 1775
Source: The Writings of George Washington: pt. II. Correspondence and miscellaneous papers relating to the American revolution: (v. 3) June, 1775-July, 1776. (v. 4) July, 1776-July] 1777. (v. 5) July, 1777-July, 1778. (v. 6) July, 1778-March, 1780. (v. 7) March, 1780-April, 1781. (v. 8) April, 1781-December, 1783
“Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend.”
“We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them...”
“A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.”
Source: From the Kingdom of Memory: Reminiscences
“An excellent man; he has no enemies; and none of his friends like him.”
“Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.”
Source: The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray : the 1890 and 1891 texts
“Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.”
“A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.”
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