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“[It] is the juvenal period of life when friendships are formed, and habits established, that will stick by one.”

Friendship Youth Habit Periods Sticks

Book:The writings of George Washington from the original manuscript sources, 1745-1799

Source: The writings of George Washington from the original manuscript sources, 1745-1799

“The soil of friendship is worn out with constant use. Habit may still attach us to each other, but we feel ourselves fettered by it. Old friends might be compared to old married people without the tie of children.”

People Feels May Children Stills Use Might Friendship Habit Married Constant Ties Soil Worn Old Friends Worn Out

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

“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

“The grace of novelty and the length of habit, though so very opposite to one another, yet agree in this, that they both alike keepus from discovering the faults of our friends.”

Friendship Grace Friends Habit Opposites Agree Faults Length Discovering Novelty

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“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

“Do not choose for your friends and familiar acquaintance those that are of an estate or quality too much above yours...You will hereby accustom yourselves to live after their rate in clothes, in habit, and in expenses, whereby you will learn a fashion and rank of life above your degree and estate, which will in the end be your undoing.”

Ends Friendship Quality Too Much Fashion Habit Degrees Clothes Rate Familiar Expenses Estates Acquaintance Undoing

Author:Matthew Hale

“We must rediscover the habit of thinking the best of each other”

Thinking Love Happiness Friendship Family Relationship Habit

Author:Michael Howard