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    It is a common saying that many pecks of salt must be eaten
    before the duties of friendship can be discharged.
    [Lat., Vulgo dicitur multos modios salis simul edendos esse, ut
    amicitia munus expletum sit.]

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Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.

Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.

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When a friend is in trouble, don’t annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up read more

When a friend is in trouble, don’t annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.

by E. Watson Howe Found in: Friendship Quotes,
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A road to a friend's house is never long. -Danish proverb.

A road to a friend's house is never long. -Danish proverb.

by Danish Proverb Found in: Friendship Quotes,
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To reprove small faults within due vehemence, is as absurd as if a man should take a great hammer to read more

To reprove small faults within due vehemence, is as absurd as if a man should take a great hammer to kill a fly on his friend's forehead.

by Anonymous Found in: Friendship Quotes,
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It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that read more

It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.

by Mignon Mclaughlin Found in: Friendship Quotes,
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If it's very painful for you to criticize your friends - you're safe in doing it. But if you take read more

If it's very painful for you to criticize your friends - you're safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that's the time to hold your tongue.

by Alice Duer Miller Found in: Friendship Quotes,
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Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your read more

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.

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Friendship should be more than biting time can sever.

Friendship should be more than biting time can sever.

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A friend is a second self.

A friend is a second self.

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