Friend Quotes
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Your own tactic is to train yourself in the art of becoming enigmatic to everybody. My young friend, suppose there was no one who troubld himself to guess your riddle--what joy, then, would you have in it?
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I have a friend. He keeps trying to convince me he's a compulsive liar, but I don't believe him.
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To have a friend is to have one of the sweetest gifts that life can bring:
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It's overwhelmingly in the self-interest of the United States of America to have a secure, democratic friend, a strategic partner like Israel.
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You're my brilliant friend, you have to be the best of all, boys and girls.
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Hope—you think of hope as a bright thing, a strong thing, sustaining. But it’s not. It’s the opposite. It’s simply this: lumps of stale bread stuck down your shirt. Stale gray bread eked out with ground fish bones, which you won’t eat because you’re going to give it away, and maybe you’ll get a message through to your friend.
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He that wrongs his friend, wrongs himself more.
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To oblige a friend by inflicting an injury on his enemy is often more easy than to confer a benefit on the friend himself.
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May he die with no joy at his end, The man who won't be troubled To unlock the keys of his heart and make a friend.
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It's not right for one friend to do all the giving and the other to do all the taking: that's not real friendship.
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...having you as a friend wasn’t second prize. It wasn’t something to chafe against. It was an honor.
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A friend who stands with you in pressure is more valuable than a hundred ones who stand with you in pleasure.
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The like is not the friend of the like in as far as he is like; still the good may be the friend of the good in as far as he is good.
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Diantha came so close to saying she would do whatever Patricia wanted, anything at all. And then it hit her: She was being Trickstered. She’d been this close to becoming a slave to her former best friend. Diantha backed away, almost tipping over a teak side table full of drinks.
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In four ways ... should one who flatters be understood as a foe in the guise of a friend: He approves of his friend's evil deeds, he disapproves his friend's good deeds, he praises him in his presence, he speaks ill of him in his absence.
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Those that are a friend to themselves are sure to be a friend to all.
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Till the first friend dies, we think our ecstasy impersonal, but then discover that he was the cup from which we drank it, itself as yet unknown.
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In giving advice seek to help, not to please, your friend.
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A friend always loves, but he who loves is not always a friend.
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How could you carry the inside of a person with you and not call them a friend, no matter what the rules said?
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You've always lived here, right?" Sarah asked. "Except for the years I went to college." "Didn't you ever want to move away? To experience something new?" "Like bistros?" She nudged him playfully with her elbow. "No, not just that. Cities have a vibrancy, a sense of excitement that you can't find in a small town." "I don't doubt it. But to be honest, I've never been interested in things like that. I don't need those things to make me happy. A nice quiet place to unwind at the end of the day, beautiful views, a few good friends. What else is there?
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Give, and you may keep your friend it you lose your money; lend, and the chances are that you lose your friend if ever you get back your money.
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Don't expect your friend to be a perfect person. Help your friend to become a perfect person. That is true friendship
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I don't think "I'm going to publish this as fiction" but I think "I'm going to tell this story to a friend" and then I start telling the story in my mind as the experience transpires as a way of pretending it's already happened.
