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True friendship is never serene.

Marie de Rabutin-Chantal

I do not believe the expenditure of $2.50 for a book entitles the purchaser to the personal friendship of the author.

Evelyn Waugh
English novelist & satirist (1903 - 1966)

The holy passion of Friendship is so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.

Mark Twain
US humorist, novelist, short story author, & wit (1835 - 1910)

Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.

Honore de Balzac
French realist novelist (1799 - 1850)

True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.

Charles Caleb Colton
(1780 - 1832)

I have nothing but contempt for the kind of governor who is afraid, for whatever reason, to follow the course that he knows is best for the State; and as for the man who sets private friendship above the public welfare - I have no use for him either.

Sophocles, Antigone
Greek tragic dramatist (496 BC - 406 BC)

The friendship that can cease has never been real.

Saint Jerome, Letter
church father & saint (374 AD - 419 AD)

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.

George Washington
First president of US (1732 - 1799)

May the hinges of our friendship never grow rusty.

Irish Proverb

It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.

Henry Ward Beecher
US abolitionist & clergyman (1813 - 1887)

The main things which seem to me important on their own account, and not merely as means to other things, are knowledge, art, instinctive happiness, and relations of friendship or affection.

Bertrand Russell
British author, mathematician, & philosopher (1872 - 1970)

And in the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter and the sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.

Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet
Lebanese artist & poet in US (1883 - 1931)

Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.

Honore de Balzac
French realist novelist (1799 - 1850)

Do you know what friendship is... it is to be brother and sister; two souls which touch without mingling, two fingers on one hand.

Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Chapter 13
French dramatist, novelist, & poet (1802 - 1885)

Do not be content with showing friendship in words alone, let your heart burn with loving kindness for all who may cross your path.

Abdul Baha, Paris Talks, p. 15

All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox, O Magazine, February 2004

A hedge between keeps friendship green.

German Proverb

True friendship is seen through the heart not through the eyes.

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The glory of friendship is not the outstreched 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.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
US essayist & poet (1803 - 1882)

True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.

Charles Caleb Colton
(1780 - 1832)

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