"One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim."

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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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"Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved."

Addison, Joseph on Friends and Friendship
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"The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures."

Addison, Joseph on Friends and Friendship
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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."

Addison, Joseph on Friends and Friendship
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"Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly."

Alcott, Amos Bronson on Friends and Friendship
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"Stay is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary."

Alcott, Louisa May on Friends and Friendship
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"A faithful friend is the medicine of life."

Apocrypha on Friends and Friendship
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"Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious."

Aquinas, St. Thomas on Friends and Friendship
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"I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship."

Aretino, Pietro on Friends and Friendship
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"Without friends, no one would want to live, even if he had all other goods."

Aristotle on Friends and Friendship
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"Without friends no one would choose to live."

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"Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit."

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"A true friend is one soul in two bodies."

Aristotle on Friends and Friendship
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"To the query, What is a friend? his reply was A single soul dwelling in two bodies."

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"In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds."

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"Friendship is essentially a partnership."

Aristotle on Friends and Friendship
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"Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies."

Aristotle on Friends and Friendship
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"What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies."

Aristotle on Friends and Friendship
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"Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality."

Auden, W. H. on Friends and Friendship
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"If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept because you will gain one friend."

Augustine, St. on Friends and Friendship
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"I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him."

Augustine, St. on Friends and Friendship
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"Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness..."

Bach, Richard on Friends and Friendship
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"Your friends will know you better in the first minute they meet you than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years."

Bach, Richard on Friends and Friendship
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"Can miles truly separate us from friends? If we want to be with someone we love, aren't we already there?"

Bach, Richard on Friends and Friendship
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"Without friends the world is but a wilderness. There is no man that imparteth his joys to his friends, but he joyeth the more; and no man that imparteth his grieves to his friend, but he grieveth the less."

Bacon, Francis 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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"Friends, both the imaginary ones you build for yourself out of phrases taken from a living writer, or real ones from college, and relatives, despite all the waste of ceremony and fakery and the fact that out of an hour of conversation you may have only five minutes in which the old entente reappears, are the only real means for foreign ideas to enter your brain."

Baker, Nicholson on Friends and Friendship
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"Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other."

Balzac, Honore De on Friends and Friendship
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"The best time to make friends is before you need them."

Barrymore, Ethel on Friends and Friendship
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"Keep a fair-sized cemetery in your back yard, in which to bury the faults of your friends."

Beecher, Henry Ward on Friends and Friendship
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"Never shall I forget the time I spent with you. Please continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours."

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"When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly."

Belloc, Hilaire on Friends and Friendship
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"From quiet homes and first beginning, out to the undiscovered ends, there's nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends."

Belloc, Hilaire on Friends and Friendship
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"It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality."

Bennett, Arnold on Friends and Friendship
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"Faithful are the wounds of a friend."

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"A faithful friend is a strong defense: and he that hath found one hath found a treasure."

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"Some friends play at friendship, but a true friend sticks closer than one's nearest kin. [Proverbs 18:24]"

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"Forsake not an old friend, for the new is not comparable unto him. A new friend is as new wine: when it is old thou shalt drink it with pleasure."

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"A friend loveth at all times. [Proverbs 17:17]"

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