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“Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.”

“Keep what is worth keeping and with the breath of kindness blow the rest away.”

“In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.”

“Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them.”

“He who has one enemy shall meet him everywhere.”

“When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.”

“The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.”

“But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine.”

“Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.”

“If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give.”

“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.”

“She is a friend of mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. It's good, you know, when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind.”

“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.”

“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.”

“True friends stab you in the front.”

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

“A good friend is a connection to life - a tie to the past, a road to the future, the key to sanity in a totally insane world.”

“We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over; so in a series of kindnesses there is at last one which makes the heart run over.”

“Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person; having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but to pour them all out, just as they are, chaff and grain together, knowing that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then, with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.”

“A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.”

“Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.”

“A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud.”

“He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, while he who has one enemy shall meet him everywhere.”

“You Too? I thought I was the only one.”

“Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.”

“The best time to make friends is before you need them.”

“Oooh I get by with a little help from my friends.”

“We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.”

“I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar.”

“A friend knows the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.”

“A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart, and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words.”

“I get by with a little help from my friends.”