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The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.
Joseph Addison
Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved.
But a lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.
George Bernard Shaw
You may poke a man's fire after you've known him for seven years.
English Proverb
Friends are like fiddle strings, they must not be screwed too tight.
A man should choose a friend who is better than himself. There are plenty of acquaintances in the world; but very few real friends.
Chinese Proverb
The making of friends who are real friends, is the best token we have of a man's success in life.
Edward Everett Hale
Friendship with oneself is all-important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures.
William Wycherley
Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
Tehyi Hsieh
Let me live in a house by the side of the road and be a friend to man.
Sam Walter Foss
Most people enjoy the inferiority of their best friends.
Lord Chesterfield
And say my glory was I had such friends.
William Butler Yeats
He who does not feel his friends to be the world to him, does not deserve that the world should hear of him.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
To keep a new friend, never break with the old.
Proverb
...being in a bad mood with your friends beats being in a bad mood without them.
John Green
Friends are like melons; shall I tell you why? To find one good you must one hundred try.
Claude Mermet
A friend is known when needed.
Arabic Proverb
Do not tell a friend anything you would conceal from an enemy.
The enemy of my enemy is my friend.
