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Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends.
-Proverb
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The time to make friends is before you need them.
-Proverb
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Short judgments make long friends.
-Proverb
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It is prosperity that gives us friends, adversity that proves them.
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A friend is someone who doesn't like the same people you do.
-Proverb
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Be slow in choosing a friend, but slower in changing him.
-Proverb
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Broken friendships can be soldered, but never sound.
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One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.
-Henry Adams
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Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief.
-Joseph Addison
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Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved.
-Joseph Addison
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The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.
-Joseph Addison
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The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.
-Joseph Addison
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Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.
-Amos Bronson Alcott
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Stay is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.
-Louisa May Alcott
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Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It's not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.
-Muhammad Ali
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Friendships are different from all other relationships. Unlike acquaintanceship, friendship is based on love. Unlike lovers and married couples, it is free of jealousy. Unlike children and parents, it knows neither criticism nor resentment. Friendship has no status in law. Business partnerships are based on a contract. So is marriage. Parents are bound by the law. But friendships are freely entered into, freely given, freely exercised.
-Stephen Ambrose
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Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.
-Thomas Aquinas
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I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.
-Pietro Aretino
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In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.
-Aristotle
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Without friends, no one would want to live, even if he had all other goods.
-Aristotle
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Without friends no one would choose to live.
-Aristotle
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Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.
-Aristotle
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A true friend is one soul in two bodies.
-Aristotle
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To the query, What is a friend? his reply was A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
-Aristotle
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Friendship is essentially a partnership.
-Aristotle
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Books about Friends
