Oh, how you wrong our friendship, valiant youth.
With friends there is not such a word as debt:
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Oh, how you wrong our friendship, valiant youth.
With friends there is not such a word as debt:
Where amity is ty'd with band of truth,
All benefits are there in common set.

The friendships of the world are oft
Confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasure;
Ours has severest read more

The friendships of the world are oft
Confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasure;
Ours has severest virtue for its basis,
And such a friendship ends not but with life.

Friendship should be more than biting time can sever.

Friendship should be more than biting time can sever.

He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, while he who has one enemy shall meet read more

He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, while he who has one enemy shall meet him everywhere.

I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.

I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.

Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.

Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.

Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendship and intimacies, read more

Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendship and intimacies, and soon their places will know them no more, and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will b.

Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

Many a person has held close, throughout their entire lives, two friends that always remained strange to one another, because read more

Many a person has held close, throughout their entire lives, two friends that always remained strange to one another, because one of them attracted by virtue of similarity, the other by difference.