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Friends are relatives you make for yourself.
Friends are relatives you make for yourself.
Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with a part of another; people are friends read more
Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with a part of another; people are friends in spots.
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.
Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.'
Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.'
The firmest friendship is based on an identity of likes and dislikes.
The firmest friendship is based on an identity of likes and dislikes.
It is a common saying that many pecks of salt must be eaten
before the duties of friendship can read more
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.]
We cannot tell the exact moment a friendship is formed; as in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is read more
We cannot tell the exact moment a friendship is formed; as in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over; so in a series of kindnesses, there is at last one that makes the heart run over.
Ah, how good it feels! The hand of an old friend.
Ah, how good it feels! The hand of an old friend.
Lord, defend me from my friends; I can account for my enemies.
Lord, defend me from my friends; I can account for my enemies.