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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.
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!
Be more prompt to go to a friend in adversity than in prosperity.
Be more prompt to go to a friend in adversity than in prosperity.
Friends are treasures.
Friends are treasures.
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.
... 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.
True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.
True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.
Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
