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True
friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom
known until it be lost.
-- Charles Caleb Colton
1780-1832, British Sportsman
Writer
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.
-- Sheryl Condie
Have no
friends not equal to yourself.
-- Confucius
BC 551-479, Chinese Ethical
Teacher, Philosopher
In America
every woman has her set of girl-friends; some are cousins,
the rest are gained at school. These form a permanent
committee who sit on each other's affairs, who ''come out''
together, marry and divorce together, and who end as those
groups of bustling, heartless well-informed club-women who
govern society. Against them the Couple of Ehepaar is
helpless and Man in their eyes but a biological interlude.
-- Cyril Connolly
1903-1974, British Critic
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The man that
hails you Tom or Jack, and proves by thumps upon your back
how he esteems your merit, is such a friend, that one had
need be very much his friend indeed to pardon or to bear it.
-- William Cowper
1731-1800, British Poet
A friend is
one to whom one may pour out all the contents of one's
heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that the gentlest
of hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping,
and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.
-- Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
Friendship is
the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with
a person having neither to weigh thoughts or measure words,
but pouring all right out just as they are, chaff and grain
together, certain that a faithful friendly hand will take
and sift them, keep what is worth keeping and, with a breath
of comfort, blow the rest away.
-- Dinah Mulock Craik
A friend is
someone with whom you dare to be yourself.
-- Frank Crane
American Actor
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