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A friend is, as it were, a second self.
A friend is, as it were, a second self.
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.
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 friend is someone you can be alone with and have nothing to do and not be able to think read more
A friend is someone you can be alone with and have nothing to do and not be able to think of anything to say and be comfortable in the silence.
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.
The real test of friendship is: can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy those moments read more
The real test of friendship is: can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple?
A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and sings it back to you when you have read more
A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and sings it back to you when you have forgotten how it goes.
Friends are treasures.
Friends are treasures.
... 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.