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Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.

Be more prompt to go to a friend in adversity than in prosperity.

True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.

Good friends are good for your health.

Friendship is genuine when two friends can enjoy each others company without speaking a word to one another.

It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.

Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things: and in that sense it is more ideal and less subject to trouble than marriage is.

When I find myself fading, I close my eyes and realize my friends are my energy.

Most people enjoy the inferiority of their best friends.

A friend is someone you can be alone with and have nothing to do and not be able to think of anything to say and be comfortable in the silence.

Let me live in a house by the side of the road and be a friend to man.

A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.

Friendship should be a private pleasure, not a public boast. I loathe those braggarts who are forever trying to invest themselves with importance by calling important people by their first names in or out of print. Such first-naming for effect makes me cringe.

The real test of friendship is: can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple?

My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.

The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.

A friend is, as it were, a second self.

Thank You Friend I never came to you, my friend, and went away without some new enrichment of the heart; More faith and less of doubt, more courage in the days ahead. And often in great need coming to you, I went away comforted indeed. How can I find the shining word, the glowing phrase that tells all that your love has meant to me, all that your friendship spells? There is no word, no phrase for you on whom I so depend. All I can say to you is this, God bless you precious friend.

We all take different paths in life, but no matter where we go, we take a little of eachother everywhere.

A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.