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A good friend is one's nearest relation.
A man that hath friends must show himself friendly.
There is no better looking-glass than an old friend.
Promises may get friends, but 'tis performances that keep them.
You will never have a friend if you must have one without
fault.
Friendships multiply joys and divide griefs.
Adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.
Every man is a friend to him that giveth gifts.
A friend to everybody is a friend to nobody.
True friends visit us in prosperity only when invited, but in
adversity they come without invitation.
A friend that you buy with presents will be bought from you.
Thine own friend and thy father's friend forsake not.
Bible
A hedge between keeps friendship green.
To be honest, to be kind, to earn a little, to spend a little
less, to renounce whatever shall be necessary and not be
embittered, to make a family happier for his presence, to
keep a few friends and these without capitulation, and above
all, to keep friends with one's self --- here is a task for
all that a man has of fortitude and delicacy.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Friendship is the wine of life; but friendship new is neither
strong nor pure.
Edward Young
Common friendship standeth on equalities, and cannot stand a
debt.
He that ceaseth to be friend never was a good one.
The rich hath many friends.
Bible
Absence strengtheneth friendships, where the last
recollections were friendly.
Make no friendship with a man given to anger.
Friendship made in a moment is of no moment.
Wealth addeth many friends.
Bible
An envious man, if you succeed,
May prove a dangerous foe indeed,
But not a friend worth keeping.
False friends are worse than open enemies.
Choose your friends with care, that you may have choice
friends.
A faithful friend loves to the end.
He is a weak friend who cannot bear with his friend's weakness.
A friend is easier lost than found.
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