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A home-made friend wears longer than one you buy in the market.

To reprove small faults within due vehemence, is as absurd as if a man should take a great hammer to kill a fly on his friend's forehead.

Flattery looks like friendship, just like a wolf looks like a dog.

Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can only read the title.

Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them.

The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away.

Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with a part of another: people are friends in spots.

True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.

A friend is a present you give yourself. -Robert Louis Stevenson.

Acquaintance: a degree of friendship called slight when its object is poor or obscure, and intimate when he is rich or famous.

The only way to have a friend is to be one.

Think where man's glory most begins and ends, And say my glory was I had such friends.

Celebrate the happiness that friends are always giving, make every day a holiday and celebrate just living!

The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.

The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him.

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

Ah, how good it feels! The hand of an old friend.

Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one. -Robert E. Lee.

To attract good fortune, spend a new penny on an old friend, share an old pleasure with a new friend and lift up the heart of a true friend by writing his name on the wings of a dragon.

I have no trouble with my enemies. I can take care of my enemies all right. But my damn friends...They're the ones that keep me walking the floor nights!