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One may discover a new side to his most intimate friend when for the first time he hears him speak read more
One may discover a new side to his most intimate friend when for the first time he hears him speak in public. He will be stranger to him as he is more familiar to the audience. The longest intimacy could not foretell how he would behave then.
Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a read more
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!
Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.
Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.
If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for read more
If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own.
It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
Friendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports.
Friendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports.
I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is read more
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.
To act the part of a true friend requires more conscientious feeling than to fill with credit and complacency any read more
To act the part of a true friend requires more conscientious feeling than to fill with credit and complacency any other station or capacity in social life.
If one could be friendly with women, what a pleasure -- the relationship so secret and private compared with relations read more
If one could be friendly with women, what a pleasure -- the relationship so secret and private compared with relations with men. Why not write about it truthfully?
