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Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead. After that my own rule is to let everything alone.

F. Scott Fitzgerald, "The Great Gatsby"

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They are more to me than life, these voices, they are more than motherliness and more than fear; they are the strongest, most comforting thing there is anywhere: they are the voices of my comrades.

Erich Maria Remarque, "All Quiet On The Western Front"

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A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.

Elbert Hubbard

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A friend in need, is a friend indeed!

American proverb

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The holy passion of Friendship is of 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

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Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.

Albert Camus

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The universal brotherhood of man is our most precious possession.

Mark Twain

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Get not your friends by bare compliments, but by giving them sensible tokens of your love.

Socrates

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The language of friendship is not words but meanings.

Henry David Thoreau

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Never expect a loan to a friend to be paid back if you want to keep that friend.

Bryant H. McGill

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Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: "What! You too? I thought I was the only one."

C. S. Lewis

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So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.

Helen Keller

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The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing... not healing, not curing... that is a friend who cares.

Henri Nouwen

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A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.

Arnold H. Glasow

3

The fellowship of true friends who can hear you out, share your joys, help carry your burdens, and correctly counsel you is priceless.

Ezra Taft Benson

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Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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True friends stab you in the front.

Oscar Wilde

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A true friend freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably.

William Penn

3

I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.

Thomas A. Edison

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Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.

Jane Austen

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