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• "Nothing changes your opinion of a friend so surely as success — yours or his." --Franklin P. Jones, Saturday Evening Post, 29 November 1953

• "Your friend is your needs answered. He is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving. And he is your board and your fireside. For you come to him with your hunger, and you seek him for peace." --Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet, 1923

• "Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years." --Richard Bach, Illusions, The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah

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• "A friend is one
  To whom one may pour out all
  The contents of one's heart
  Chaff and grain, together,
  Knowing that the gentlest of hands
  Will take and sift it,
  Keep what's worth keeping
  And blow the rest away." --Dinah Mulock

• "A friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else." --Len Wein

• "Friendship isn't a big thing; It is a million of little things." Anonymous

• "Friends are these people who ask you how you are and wait for an answer." Anonymous

• "A friend is the person who knows all about you and still loves you." Elbert Hubbert

• "A friend knows the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails." --Donna Roberts

• "A hug is worth a thousand words. A friend is worth more." --Anonymous

• "Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?" --Abraham Lincoln

• "Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend's success." --Oscar Wilde

• "Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born." --Anaïs Nin

• "Go slowly to the entertainments of thy friends, but quickly to their misfortunes." --Chilo

• "Hold a true friend with both of your hands." --Anonymous

• "I realized that the Impossible stands for three things: the ghoul, the phoenix, and the loyal friend." --Safi el-Din el-Hilli

• "In giving advice seek to help, not to please, your friend." --Solon

• "Involvement with people is always a very delicate thing — it requires real maturity to become involved and not get all messed up." --Bernard Cooke

• "'It is a great confidence in a friend to tell him your faults; greater to tell him his." --Benjamin Franklin

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

• "Life without a friend is death without a witness." --Eugene Benge

• "My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me." --Henry Ford

• "My friend, if I could give you one thing, I would wish for you the ability to see yourself as others see you. Then you would realize what a truly special person you are." --Anonymous

• "No love, no friendship, can cross the path of our destiny without leaving some mark on it forever." --François Mauriac

• "One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim." --Henry Brook Adams

• "The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend, as to find a friend worth dying for." --Homer

• "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right..." --Mark Twain

• "The road to a friend's house is never long." --Danish proverb

• "There are three friends in this world -- courage, sense, and insight." --Anonymous

• "To find out a girl's faults, praise her to her girl friends." --Anonymous

• "A true friend stabs you in the front." --Oscar Wilde

• "True wealth can not be found in your bank account. It can only be found in those you call friend. Those with whom you share your deepest feelings. And those who accept you for who you really are." --Mary Vandergrift

• "Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour. For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but woe to him that is alone when he falleth; for he hath not another to help him up." --The Bible, Ecclesiastes

• "When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean 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. 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 curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares." --Henri Nouwen

• "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

• "Friends help you move. Real friends help you move bodies." -- Anonymous

• "A friend in need is a friend indeed." --Anonymous

• "Friendship is like peeing in your pants.
  Everyone can see that it's there...
  but only you can feel the true warmth." -- Unknown

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