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"It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help."
Epicurus

"Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them."
Francesco Guicciardini

"Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence."
George Washington

"One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human."
George Santayana

"If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give."
George MacDonald

"When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand."
Henri Nouwen

"Ah, how good it feels! The hand of an old friend."
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend."
Henry David Thoreau

"The language of friendship is not words but meanings."
Henry David Thoreau

"Yes, we must ever be friends; and of all who offer you friendship let me be ever the first, the truest, the nearest and dearest!"
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence."
Joseph Roux

"We are friends and I do like to pass the day with you in serious and inconsequential chatter. I wouldn't mind washing up beside you, dusting beside you, reading the back half of the paper while you read the front. We are friends and I would miss you, do miss you and think of you very often."
Jeanette Winterson

"It takes a long time to grow an old friend."
John Leonard

"I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing."
Katherine Mansfield

"You can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job."
Laurence J. Peter

"Friendship... is not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything."
Muhammad Ali

"It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not."
Mignon McLaughlin

"It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter."
Marlene Dietrich

"Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts."
Margaret Lee Runbeck

"Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom."
Marcel Proust

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