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“Friendship is cemented by interest, vanity, or the want of amusement; it seldom implies esteem, or even mutual regard.”

Want Interest Friendship Regard Esteem Vanity Mutual Amusement

Book:The Round Table. A collection of Essays ... By W. H. and Leigh Hunt

Source: The Round Table. A collection of Essays ... By W. H. and Leigh Hunt

“How were friendship possible? In mutual devotedness to the good and true; otherwise impossible, except as armed neutrality or hollow commercial league. A man, be the heavens ever praised, is sufficient for himself; yet were ten men, united in love, capable of being and of doing what ten thousand singly would fail in. Infinite is the help man can yield to man.”

Men Helping Heaven Friendship United Impossible Failing Thousand Ten Capable Infinite League Sufficient Mutual Yield Hollow Neutrality Man United

Book:Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh in Three Books

Source: Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh in Three Books

“Friendship is a calm and sedate affection, conducted by reason and cemented by habit; springing from long acquaintance and mutual obligations, without jealousies or fears, and without those feverish fits of heat and cold, which cause such an agreeable torment in the amorous passion.”

Long Reason Passion Causes Friendship Cold Habit Fit Calm Affection Obligation Heat Mutual Torment Acquaintance Amorous Heat And Cold

Book:Essays Moral, Political, Literary: Revision of Great Book

Source: Essays Moral, Political, Literary: Revision of Great Book

“We value the devotedness of friendship rather as an oblation to vanity than as a free interchange of hearts; an endearing contract of sympathy, mutual forbearance, and respect!”

Heart Values Friendship Vanity Mutual Contracts Forbearance Endearing Change Of Heart Interchange

Book:Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks

Source: Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks

“There can never be deep peace between two spirits, never mutual respect, until, in their dialogue, each stands for the whole world.”

World Two Whole Spirit Friendship Whole World Dialogue Mutual Mutual Respect

Book:Early Lectures: 1838-1842

Source: Early Lectures: 1838-1842

“Ties of blood are not always ties of friendship; but friendship founded on merit, on esteem, and on mutual trust, becomes more vital and more tender when strengthened by the ties of blood.”

Friendship Blood Esteem Merit Ties Mutual Mutual Trust

Author:Lord Chesterfield

“The harmony of the nation is promoted and the whole Union is knit together by the sentiments of mutual respect, the habits of social intercourse, and the ties of personal friendship formed between the representatives of its several parts in the performance of their service at this metropolis.”

Whole Together Nations Social Friendship Habit Performances Harmony Unions Ties Mutual Sentiments Representatives Intercourse Mutual Respect Metropolis

Book:John Quincy Adams, 1767-1848; chronology, documents, bibliographical aids

Source: John Quincy Adams, 1767-1848; chronology, documents, bibliographical aids

“Mutual good humor is a dress we ought to appear in wherever we meet, and we should make no mention of what concerns ourselves, without it be of matters wherein our friends ought to rejoice.”

Should Matter Friendship Friends Ought Concern Dresses Mutual Rejoice Good Humor

Book:The spectator

Source: The spectator

“Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses.”

Source: The Ann Landers Encyclopedia, A to Z: Improve Your Life Emotionally, Medically, Sexually, Socially, Spiritually

“Friendship is mutual blackmail elevated to the level of love.”

Friendship Levels Powerful Mutual Blackmail Mutual Love

Author:Robin Morgan

“What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.”

Men Love Self Given Social Interest Friendship Business Friends Self Love Involved Profit Mutual Steady Arrangements Propose Adjustment Interchange

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature.”

Beautiful Reading Literature Friendship Taste Foundation Mutual Beautiful Friendship

Book:The Most Of P.G. Wodehouse

Source: The Most Of P.G. Wodehouse

“Friendship- my definition- is built on two things. Respect and trust. Both elements have to be there. And it has to be mutual. You can have respect for someone, but if you don't have trust, the friendship will crumble.”

“The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.”

Should Trying Mean Friendship Benefits Friendly Mutual Sincere Sympathy Sympathy For A Friend

Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero

“The firmest of friendships have been formed in mutual adversity, as iron is most strongly united by the fiercest flame.”

Has Beens Friendship United Friends Adversity Flames Iron Mutual Overcoming Adversity

Book:Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

Source: Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

“There is no stronger bond of friendship than a common enemy.”

Friendship Enemy Stronger Mutual Bonds Of Friendship

Author:Frank Frankfort Moore

“The friendship which is to be practised or expected by common mortals, must take its rise from mutual pleasure, and must end when the power ceases of delighting each other.”

Ends Friendship Pleasure Common Expected Cease Mortals Mutual

Book:The Beauties of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Consisting of Maxims and Observations, Moral, Critical, and Miscellaneous, to which are Now Added, Biographical Anecdotes of the Doctor, Selected from the Late Productions of Mrs. Piozzi, Mr. Boswell, ...

Source: The Beauties of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Consisting of Maxims and Observations, Moral, Critical, and Miscellaneous, to which are Now Added, Biographical Anecdotes of the Doctor, Selected from the Late Productions of Mrs. Piozzi, Mr. Boswell, ...