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“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 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”

“We'll be Friends Forever, won't we, Pooh?' asked Piglet. Even longer,' Pooh answered.”

“I think if I've learned anything about friendship, it's to hang in, stay connected, fight for them, and let them fight for you. Don't walk away, don't be distracted, don't be too busy or tired, don't take them for granted. Friends are part of the glue that holds life and faith together. Powerful stuff.”

“No love, no friendship, can cross the path of our destiny without leaving some mark on it forever.”

“The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, not the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when you discover that someone else believes in you and is willing to trust you with a friendship.”

“Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.”

“The friend who holds your hand and says the wrong thing is made of dearer stuff than the one who stays away.”

“It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn't use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words like "What about lunch?”