People's lives change. To keep all your old friends is like keeping all your old clothes -- pretty soon your closet is so jammed and everything so crushed you can't find anything to wear. Help these friends when they need you; bless the years and happy times when you meant a lot to each other, but try not to have the guilts if new people mean more to you now.
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Never Explain--your Friends do not need it and your Enemies will not believe you anyway.
Never Explain--your Friends do not need it and your Enemies will not believe you anyway.
The happiest business in all the world is that of making friends, And no investment on the street pays larger read more
The happiest business in all the world is that of making friends, And no investment on the street pays larger dividends, For life is more than stocks and bonds, and love than rate percent, And he who gives in friendship's name shall reap what he has spent.
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It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.
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Friendship is something that creates equality and mutuality, not a reward for finding equality or a way of intensifying existing mutuality.
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Let your friends be the friends of your deliberate choice.
Let your friends be the friends of your deliberate choice.
A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.
A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.
Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache; do be my enemy - for friendship's sake. -William Blake.
Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache; do be my enemy - for friendship's sake. -William Blake.
