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• You Too? I thought I was the only one.

  C. S. Lewis

  Friendship, Funny Best Friend, Real Friends

  C. S. Lewis (1971). “The Four Loves”, p.77, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I might give my life for my friend, but he had better not ask me to do up a parcel.

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Friendship, Real Friends, Giving

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• One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible.

  Henry Adams

  Friendship, True Friend, Two

  The Education of Henry Adams ch. 20 (1907)

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• 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.

  Khalil Gibran

  Friendship, Real Friends, Boards

  Khalil Gibran (2014). “The Prophet - Der Prophet”, p.92, Lulu.com

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• Ah, how good it feels! The hand of an old friend.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Friendship, Best Friend, True Friend

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1872). “The poetical works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Author's complete ed”, p.638

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• Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel; But do not dull thy palm with entertainment Of each new-hatch'd, unfledg'd comrade.

  William Shakespeare

  Friendship, Real Friends, Adoption

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 3, l. 58

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• Now with my friend I desire not to share or participate, but to engross his sorrows, that, by making them mine own, I may more easily discuss them; for in mine own reason, and within myself, I can command that which I cannot entreat without myself, and within the circle of another.

  Thomas Browne

  Real, Circles, Sorrow

  Sir Thomas Browne (1835). “Sir Thomas Browne's Works: Including His Life and Correspondence”, p.97

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• I find friendship to be like wine, raw when new, ripened with age, the true old man's milk and restorative cordial.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Friendship, True Friend, Wine

  Thomas Jefferson, Henry Augustine Washington (1854). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Being His Autobiography, Correspondence, Reports, Messages, Addresses, and Other Writings, Official and Private : Published by the Order of the Joint Committee of Congress on the Library, from the Original Manuscripts, Deposited in the Department of State”, p.4

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• One friend in a life-time 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 Adams

  Friendship, Real, Two

  The Education of Henry Adams ch. 20 (1907)

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• I have loved my friends as I do virtue, my soul, my God.

  Thomas Browne

  Real, Soul, New Friendship

  Sir Thomas Browne (1872). “Religio Medici: A Letter to a Friend, Christian Morals, Urn-burial, and Other Papers”, p.129

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• What is uttered from the heart alone, Will win the hearts of others to your own.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Relationship, Honesty, Yoga

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• I cannot even imagine where I would be today were it not for that handful of friends who have given me a heart full of joy. Let's face it, friends make life a lot more fun.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Friendship, Fun, True Friend

  Charles R. Swindoll (2010). “Laugh Again / Hope Again: Two Books to Inspire a Joy-Filled Life”, p.96, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.

  George Washington

  True Friend, 4th Of July, Patriotic

  George Washington, Stephen Lucas (1999). “The Quotable George Washington: The Wisdom of an American Patriot”, p.39, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Friendship, Witty

  Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Joseph Bristow, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray : the 1890 and 1891 texts”, p.175, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• It is easy to say how we love new friends, and what we think of them, but words can never trace out all the fibers that knit us to the old.

  George Eliot

  Friends, Thinking, Fiber

  George Eliot (2010). “The Works of George Eliot”, General Books

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• The good thing about being Dr. Frankenstein is that you can always make new friends.

  Aaron Allston

  New Friendship, Drs, Good Things

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• I'm very lonely now, Mary, For the poor make no new friends; But oh they love the better still The few our Father sends!

  Hariot Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, Marchioness of Dufferin and Ava

  Love, Lonely, Father

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• You can make a new friend but you can't make an old one.

  Tom Bodett

  New Friendship

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• If you're the smartest one of your friends, you need new friends.

  Dennis Kimbro

  Needs, Ifs

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• The great advantage of a new friend is that we have not yet found one another out.

  Mason Cooley

  Friendship, Found, Advantage

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• I'm fortunate enough that every job I do seems to be, at the very least, teaching me something fantastic. I make new friends. I work with talented people. And each project and experience seems to be better than the last. I seem to be topping myself all the time. I think to myself: "It can't get better, it can't get better..." And then something happens that makes me feel like I'm truly richer for the experience.

  Nathan Fillion

  Jobs, Teaching, Thinking

  "Waitress - Nathan Fillion interview". Interview with Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• If you're going to help somebody, sneak in, sneak out, do what you can. I just sneak along and do my thing and meet wonderful people, some people I've never met, new friends.

  Bobby Orr

  Sneak In, People, Helping

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• I'm always on the market for a new friend, period. As your success continues to grow, you start to see who your real friends are. But I'm always looking for wonderful people to have in my life that have no agenda and aren't fake friends.

  Lady Gaga

  Fake Friends, Real, People

  "Lady Gaga Talks VMAs Performance (Exclusive Interview)". Just Jared Interview, www.justjared.com. August 23, 2013.

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• The great thing about new friends is that they bring new energy to your soul.

  Unknown

  Soul, Energy, One Line

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• How enriched life is by friends! Good friends, new friends, old friends, feathered friends, feline friends, friends of friends.

  Laurel Burch

  Good Friend, Old Friends, Life Is

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