"Friendships are fragile things and require as much care in handling as any other fragile and precious thing."

Bourne, Randolph S. on Friends and Friendship
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"TRUST: I know that you will not -- deliberately or accidentally, consciously or unconsciously -- take unfair advantage of me. I can put my situation at the moment, my status and self-esteem in this group, our relationship, my job, my career, even my life, in your hands with complete confidence."

Mcgregor, Douglas Murray on Trust
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"The glue that holds all relationships together -- including the relationship between the leader and the led is trust, and trust is based on integrity."

Tracy, Brian on Integrity
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"Plant a seed of friendship; reap a bouquet of happiness."

Kaufman, Lois L. on Friends and Friendship
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"True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks."

Jerome, St. on Friends and Friendship
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"Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity."

Gibran, Kahlil on Friends and Friendship
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"True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable."

Gentry, David Tyson on Friends and Friendship
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"Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy."

Brookner, Anita on Friends and Friendship
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"The worst solitude is to have no real friendships."

Bacon, Francis on Friends and Friendship
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"There is no stronger bond of friendship than a mutual enemy."

Moore, Frankfort on Enemies
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"Friendship is essentially a partnership."

Aristotle on Friends and Friendship
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"To each one of us friendship has a different meaning. For all of us it is a gift. Friendship needs to be cherished and nurtured. It needs to be cultivated on a daily basis. Then shall it germinate and yield its fruit."

Unknown, Source on Friends and Friendship
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"Friendship is to be purchased only by friendship. A man may have authority over others, but he can never have their hearts but by giving his own."

Wilson, Thomas on Friends and Friendship
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"There can be no friendship where there is no freedom. Friendship loves a free air, and will not be fenced up in straight and narrow enclosures."

Penn, William on Friends and Friendship
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"False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports."

Burton, Sir Richard on Friends and Friendship
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"Friendship is a very simple word, very commonly used. The word friend is almost used on a daily basis. Yet, the depth and meaning of friendship certainly go beyond the simple and the common. Throughout history friendship has been a favorite theme for many writers. The following passages highlight what others have said about friendship in the past."

Riera, Dorothy on Friends and Friendship
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"It is an equal failing to trust everybody, and to trust nobody."

Proverb, English on Trust
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"Faith is a reasoning trust, a trust which reckons thoughtfully and confidently upon the trustworthiness of God."

Stott, John R. on Faith
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"Never trust the teller, trust the tale."

Lawrence, D. H. on Gossip
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"Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on Trust
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"There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity."

Johnson, Samuel on Confidence
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"Friendship consists in forgetting what one gives, and remembering what one receives."

Younger, Dumas The on Friends and Friendship
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"Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief."

Addison, Joseph on Friends and Friendship
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"Courage brother, do not stumble, though thy path be dark as night: There is a star to guide the humble, Trust in God, and do the right. Let the road be dark and dreary and its end far out of sight. Face it bravely, strong or weary. Trust in God, and do the right."

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on Friends and Friendship
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"The most valuable things in life are not measured in monetary terms. The really important things are not houses and lands, stocks and bonds, automobiles and real state, but friendships, trust, confidence, empathy, mercy, love and faith."

Russell, Bertrand on Contentment
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"Assumptions are the termites of relationships."

Winkler, Henry on Relationships
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"Humor -- the perfect relationship of the parts to the whole."

Unknown, Source on Humor
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"Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of a critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it."

Lawrence, D. H. on Critics and Criticism
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"You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you don't trust enough."

Crane, Frank on Trust
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"Life is nothing without friendship."

Cicero, Marcus T. on Friends and Friendship
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"The toughest thing about the power of trust is that it's very difficult to build and very easy to destroy. The essence of trust building is to emphasize the similarities between you and the customer."

Watson, Thomas J. on Trust
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"Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family."

Bush, Barbara on Appreciation
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"If you can't trust people, who can you trust?"

Widdiconbe, Hohn on Trust
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"Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off."

Swift, Jonathan on Reason
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"Always forgive your enemies -- nothing annoys them so much."

Wilde, Oscar on Forgiveness
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"Man is made for something better than disturbing dirt."

Wilde, Oscar on Housework
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"All words are pegs to hang ideas on."

Beecher, Henry Ward on Words
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"A friend is, as it were, a second self."

Cicero, Marcus T. on Friends and Friendship
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"Do what is right, not what you think the high headquarters wants or what you think will make you look good."

Schwarzkopf, Norman on Leaders and Leadership
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