Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a family and clan, whose blood is in your own veins. Love between a man and a woman is founded on the mating instinct and is not free from desire and self-seeking. But to have a friend and to be true under any and all trials is the mark of a man!
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Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.
Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.
To the world you are just one person, but to one person you could mean the world.
To the world you are just one person, but to one person you could mean the world.
A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and read more
A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often - just to save it from drying out completely.
Friendships are fragile things and require as much care in handling as any other fragile and precious thing.
Friendships are fragile things and require as much care in handling as any other fragile and precious thing.
Your worst enemy could be your best friend, and your best friend your worst enemy.
Your worst enemy could be your best friend, and your best friend your worst enemy.
A friend is, as it were, a second self.
A friend is, as it were, a second self.
When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up read more
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.
Friendship should be a private pleasure, not a public boast. I loathe those braggarts who are forever trying to invest read more
Friendship should be a private pleasure, not a public boast. I loathe those braggarts who are forever trying to invest themselves with importance by calling important people by their first names in or out of print. Such first-naming for effect makes me cringe.
