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A friend is a
present you give to yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson
1850-1895, Scottish Essayist,
Poet, Novelist
The essence of
true friendship is to make allowance for another's little
lapses.
-- David Storey
1933-, British Novelist,
Playwright
I am speaking
now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the
most sacred --that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness,
pure and incorrupt. If we let our friend become cold and
selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true
lover, no true friend.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe
1811-1896, American Novelist,
Antislavery Campaigner
Friendship can
only exist between persons with similar interests and points
of view. Man and woman by the conventions of society are
born with different interests and different points of view.
-- J. August Strindberg
1849-1912, Swedish Dramatist,
Novelist, Poet
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I have a
friend who tells a tale With statements parenthetical; To
start at the beginning must To her seem quite heretical; For
her accounts of happenings Are full of disconnection s; She
starts them in the middle, And proceeds in all directions.
-- Erica H. Stux
The ideal
friendship is to feel as one while remaining two.
-- Anne Sophie Swetchine
1782-1857, Russian Author
Your notions
of friendship are new to me; I believe every man is born
with his quantum, and he cannot give to one without robbing
another. I very well know to whom I would give the first
place in my friendship, but they are not in the way, I am
condemned to another scene, and therefore I distribute it in
pennyworths to those about me, and who displease me least,
and should do the same to my fellow prisoners if I were
condemned to a jail.
-- Jonathan Swift
1667-1745, Anglo-Irish
Satirist
Reprove your
friends in secret, praise them openly.
-- Publilius Syrus
1st Century BC, Roman Writer
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