“A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Friendship can only exist between persons with
“Friendship can only exist between persons with similar interests and points of view. Man and woman by the conventions of society are born with different interests and different points of view.”
— August Strindberg
Author: August Strindberg
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Few things tend more to alienate friendship
“Few things tend more to alienate friendship than a want of punctuality in our engagements. I have known the breach of a promise to dine or sup to break up more than one intimacy.”
— William Hazlitt
Author: William Hazlitt
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The friend is the man who knows
“The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.”
— Elbert Hubbard
Author: Elbert Hubbard
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A friendship that like love is warm;
“A friendship that like love is warm; A love like friendship, steady.”
— Thomas Moore
Author: Thomas Moore
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There is no friend like an old
“There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise.”
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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The feeling of friendship is like that
“The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne.”
— Samuel Johnson
Author: Samuel Johnson
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He has no enemies, but is intensely
“He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.”
— Oscar Wilde
Author: Oscar Wilde
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Marriage is the highest state of friendship.
“Marriage is the highest state of friendship. If happy, it lessens our cares by dividing them, at the same time that it doubles our pleasures by mutual participation.”
— Samuel Richardson
Author: Samuel Richardson
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Friendship is a wildly underrated medication.
“Friendship is a wildly underrated medication.”
— Anna Deavere Smith
Author: Anna Deavere Smith
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To be capable of steady friendship or
“To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind.”
— William Hazlitt
Author: William Hazlitt
Category: friendship
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