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A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world. An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind. A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often - just to save it from drying out completely. I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar. The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship. Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit. Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship. Friendship... is not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything. Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces. Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival. It takes a long time to grow an old friend. The real test of friendship is: can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple? Yes'm, old friends is always best, 'less you can catch a new one that's fit to make an old one out of. But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine. The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you. A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same. When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it. Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend. Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness. Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them. A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down. It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help. A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends. It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them. The only way to have a friend is to be one. I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world. It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter. Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends. She is a friend of mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. It's good, you know, when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind. Contempt is the weapon of the weak and a defense against one's own despised and unwanted feelings. When a woman like that whom I've seen so much, All of a sudden drops out of touch; Is always busy and never can, Spare you a moment, it means a man. Don't ever dare to take your college as a matter of course - because, like democracy and freedom, many people you'll never know have broken their hearts to get it for you. If it's very painful for you to criticize your friends - you're safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that's the time to hold your tongue. Friendship is one mind in two bodies. It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not. I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing. Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends. 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. Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down. True friends stab you in the front. Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. The language of friendship is not words but meanings. The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend. One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human. Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts. Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better. Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend. 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.
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