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Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.

—Honoré de Balzac

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At the Garrick Club (a famous London club of which several leading actors were members) on New Year's Eve, Freddy Lonsdale was asked by Seymour Hicks to make up over a quarrel he had previously had with one of his fellow members. "You must," Seymour said. "It is very unkind to be unfriendly at such a time. Go over now and wish him a happy New Year." Freddy crossed the room and spoke to his enemy. "I wish you a happy New Year," he said, "but only one.

—Little, Brown Book of Anecdotes

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If they were there for you when you had nothing, they are the ones worth having now. If they only notice you because of what you have gained, are they worth having at all?

—Donna Lynn Hope

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The death of a friendship was usually slow and insidious, like the wearing away of a hillside after years of too much rain. A handful of misunderstandings, a season of miscommunication, the passing of time, and where once stood two women with a dozen years of memories and tears and conversation and laughter—where once stood two women closer than sisters—now stood two strangers.

—Karen Kingsbury in Even Now

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The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.

—Mark Twain

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Some friendships fade. People grow apart, lose touch, want different things. Dreams woven together, unravel.

—Kimberly Marcus in Exposed

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When you're young, you always think you'll meet all sorts of wonderful people, that drifting apart and losing friends is natural. You don't worry, at first, about the friends you leave behind. But as you get older, it gets harder to build friendships. Too many defenses, too little opportunity. You get busy. And by the time you realize that you've lost the dearest best friend you've ever had, years have gone by and you're mature enough to be embarrassed by your attitude and, frankly, by your arrogance.

—Kate Jacobs in The Friday Night Knitting Club

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But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.

—Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

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You can go through life and make new friends every year — every month practically — but there was never any substitute for those friendships of childhood that survive into adult years.

—Alexander McCall Smith in The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency

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Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

—Aristotle

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Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.

—Aristotle

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The shifts of Fortune test the reliability of friends.

—Cicero

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Being friendless taught me how to be a friend. Funny how that works.

—Colleen Wainwright

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Have no friends not equal to yourself.

—Confucius

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Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends.

—Czech Proverb

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