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When you are at your best everybody can be your friend, but when you are at your worst only the read more
When you are at your best everybody can be your friend, but when you are at your worst only the true ones stay.
Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any read more
Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness.
It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.
It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.
One measure of friendship consists not in the number of things friends can discuss, but in the number of things read more
One measure of friendship consists not in the number of things friends can discuss, but in the number of things they need no longer mention.
 Yea, mine own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, which did eat 
of my bread, hath lifted up his read more 
 Yea, mine own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, which did eat 
of my bread, hath lifted up his heel against me. 
It takes a long time to grow an old friend.
It takes a long time to grow an old friend.
 Iron sharpen iron; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his 
friend.  
 Iron sharpen iron; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his 
friend. 
It is by chance that we met, by choice that we became friends.
It is by chance that we met, by choice that we became friends.
 A friend is, as it were, a second self.
 [Lat., Amicus est tanquam alter idem.]  
 A friend is, as it were, a second self.
 [Lat., Amicus est tanquam alter idem.]