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Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.
Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.
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.
One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of read more
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.
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.
My mother used to say that there are no strangers, only friends you haven't met yet. She's now in a read more
My mother used to say that there are no strangers, only friends you haven't met yet. She's now in a maximum security twilight home in Australia.
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.
... I remember you and recall you without effort, without exercise of will; that is, by natural impulse, indicated by read more
... I remember you and recall you without effort, without exercise of will; that is, by natural impulse, indicated by a sense of duty, or of obligation. And that, I take it, is the only sort of remembering worth the having. When we think of friends, and call their faces out of the shadows, and their voices out of the echoes that faint along the corridors of memory, and do it without knowing why save that we love to do it, we content ourselves that friendship is a Reality, and not a Fancy -- that it is built upon a rock, and not upon the sands that dissolve away with the ebbing tides and carry their monuments with them.
Let me live in a house by the side of the road and be a friend to man.
Let me live in a house by the side of the road and be a friend to man.
A faithful friend is a strong defense: and he that hath found one hath found a treasure.
A faithful friend is a strong defense: and he that hath found one hath found a treasure.
