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Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
Good friends are good for your health.
Good friends are good for your health.
Most people enjoy the inferiority of their best friends.
Most people enjoy the inferiority of their best friends.
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.
Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
I will be near you when you cry if just to say I sympathize and when it's more than you read more
I will be near you when you cry if just to say I sympathize and when it's more than you can take, I'll watch the tears fall from your eyes.
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.
... 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.
Good friends are like stars...you don't always see them, but you know they're always there.
Good friends are like stars...you don't always see them, but you know they're always there.
