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“A man cannot speak to his son, but as a father; to his wife, but as a husband; to his enemy, but upon terms: whereas a friend may speak, as the case requires, and not as it sorteth with the person.”

Men May Persons Father Speak Term Friendship Enemy Cases Wife Son Husband Bitterness Father Son

Book:The Essays ... Revised ... by Thomas Markby ... Second Edition

Source: The Essays ... Revised ... by Thomas Markby ... Second Edition

“An injured friend is the bitterest of foes.”

Friendship Presidential Bitterness Foreign Policy Foe Injured

Book:The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence 1792-1793

Source: The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence 1792-1793

“The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne.”

Love Feelings Friendship Food Cooking Filled Culinary Bitterness Champagne Beef Sparkling Drinking Champagne Champagne Drinking Roast Beef Roast Chicken

Book:The Table Talk of Dr. Johnson: Comprising Opinions and Anecdotes of Life and Literature, Men, Manners, and Morals

Source: The Table Talk of Dr. Johnson: Comprising Opinions and Anecdotes of Life and Literature, Men, Manners, and Morals

“Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend.”

Source: A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings

“Neither a borrower nor a lender be, for loan oft loses both itself and friend, and borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.”

“Friendship is one of the sweetest joys of life. Many might have failed beneath the bitterness of their trial had they not found a friend.”

Might Joy Found Friendship Relationship Trials Bitterness Sweetest Joy Of Life Lost Friendship

Author:Charles Spurgeon

“Old friends become bitter enemies on a sudden for toys and small offenses.”

Friendship Enemy Bitter Bitterness Toys Offense Old Friends

Book:The Anatomy of Melancholy ... in Three Partitions with Their Several Sections, Members & Subsections, Philosopically, Medicinally & Subsections, Philosopically, Medicinally, Historically Opened & Cut Up by Democritus Junior (Robert Burton) with a Satirical Pref. Conducing to the Following Discourse

Source: The Anatomy of Melancholy ... in Three Partitions with Their Several Sections, Members & Subsections, Philosopically, Medicinally & Subsections, Philosopically, Medicinally, Historically Opened & Cut Up by Democritus Junior (Robert Burton) with a Satirical Pref. Conducing to the Following Discourse

“There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.”

Self Interest Friendship Behinds Education Bitter Bitterness Truth Of Life Self Interest Strategist Bitter Truth Selfish Interest Bitter Taste Truth And Life

Author:Chanakya

“It is bitter to lose a friend to evil before one loses him to death.”

Evil Friendship Loses Bitter Bitterness

Author:Mary Renault

“The most called-upon prerequisite of a friend is an accessible ear.”

Love Dream Friendship Ears Bitterness Prerequisites

Author:Maya Angelou

“To give and receive advice - the former with freedom, and yet without bitterness, the latter with patience and without irritation - is peculiarly appropriate to geniune friendship.”

Giving Friendship Advice Former Appropriate Latter Bitterness Irritation Giving And Receiving

Book:Letters of Marcus Tullius Cicero with His Treatises on Friendship and Old Age; Letters of Pliny the Younger

Source: Letters of Marcus Tullius Cicero with His Treatises on Friendship and Old Age; Letters of Pliny the Younger

“If a friend of mine gave a feast, and did not invite me to it, I should not mind a bit. but if a friend of mine had a sorrow and refused to allow me to share it, I should feel it most bitterly. If he shut the doors of the house of mourning against me, I would move back again and again and beg to be admitted so that I might share in what I was entitled to share. If he thought me unworthy, unfit to weep with him, I should feel it as the most poignant humiliation.”

Ifs Feels Should Mind Might Moving House Bits Friendship Doors Share Mines Sorrow Mourning Bitterness Invites Again And Again Entitled Humiliation Unworthy Back Again Poignant

Author:Oscar Wilde

“If I mayn't tell you what I feel, what is the use of a friend?”

Ifs Feels Use Friendship Bitterness

Book:Delphi Complete Works of William Makepeace Thackeray (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of William Makepeace Thackeray (Illustrated)