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• Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.

  James F. Byrnes

  Friendship, Beautiful, Self

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• Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Friendship, Relationship, Positive

  "The Beacon Book of Quotations by Women" by Rosalie Maggio, p. 130, 1992.

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• It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Friendship, Wise

  Mahatma Gandhi, Thomas Merton (1965). “Gandhi on Non-violence”, p.62, New Directions Publishing

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• Many a person has held close, throughout their entire lives, two friends that always remained strange to one another, because one of them attracted by virtue of similarity, the other by difference.

  Emil Ludwig

  Friendship, Real, Two

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• The tender friendships one gives up, on parting, leave their bite on the heart, but also a curious feeling of a treasure somewhere buried.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Friendship, Birthday, Giving Up

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• One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.

  George Santayana

  Life, Motivational, Friendship

  George Santayana (1950). “Atoms of Thought: An Anthology of Thoughts”

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• When you sympathize with a married woman you either make two enemies or gain one wife and one friend.

  H. L. Mencken

  Sympathy, Women, Two

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.620, Vintage

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• I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.

  Katherine Mansfield

  Love, Friendship, Best Friend

  Katherine Mansfield (1987). “The Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield: Volume II: 1918-September 1919”, OUP Oxford

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• We have a friend and protector, from whom, if we do not ourselves depart from Him, nor power nor spirit can separate us. In His strength let us proceed on our journey, through the storms, and troubles, and dangers of the world. However they may rage and swell, though the mountains shake at the tempests, our rock will not be moved: we have one friend who will never forsake us; one refuge, where we may rest in peace and stand in our lot at the end of the days. That same is He who liveth, and was dead; who is alive forevermore; and hath the keys of hell and of death.

  Reginald Heber

  God, Rest In Peace, Journey

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• No rich man is a patriot, no rich man is a friend. They have all only got one fatherland the Ritz-Carlton; and one friend the mistress they're promising to divorce their wives for.

  Christina Stead

  Divorce, Men, Wife

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• A new friend is always a miracle, but at thirty-three years old, such a bird of paradise rising in the sage-brush was an avatar. One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly

  Henry Adams

  Years, Two, Bird

  Henry Adams (2009). “The Education of Henry Adams”, p.480, The Floating Press

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• There are times when one friend requires the blind faith of another.

  Libba Bray

  Blind, Blind Faith

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• I am a friend. I have in my possession two thousand assorted buttons, eight hundred keys, and only one friend. Perhaps it is not something you can understand. I have not often been one before. I will be now.

  Kami Garcia

  Keys, Eight, Two

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• They're sort of ancillary anyway, friends. I mean, they're important -- everybody knows that; the TV tells you so -- but they come and go. You lose one friend, you pick up another.

  Ned Vizzini

  Mean, Important, Tvs

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• Be sure it is not for nothing that the Landlord has knit our hearts so closely to time and place – to one friend rather than another and one shire more that all the land.

  C. S. Lewis

  Heart, Land, Shire

  C. S. Lewis (2014). “The Pilgrim's Regress: The Wade Annotated Edition”, p.204, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• There is one friend in the life of each of us who seems not a separate person, however dear and beloved, but an expansion, an interpretation, of one's self, the very meaning of one's soul.

  Edith Wharton

  Friendship, Best Friend, Self

  Edith Wharton (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Edith Wharton (Illustrated)”, p.7592, Delphi Classics

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• Because, you see, you only need one friend for a party. One is enough. Two is enough. Anything is enough.' ~pg 107; Adam on friendship

  Ann M. Martin

  Party, Two, Needs

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• What if all everybody needed in the world was to be sure of one friend? What if you were the one, and you refused to say those simple words?

  Richard Russo

  Simple, What If, New Friendship

  FaceBook post by Richard Russo from Aug 02, 2012

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• it is a sad truth in life that when someone has lost a loved one, friends sometimes avoid the person, just when the presence of friends is most needed.

  Daniel Handler

  Loss, Sometimes, Loved Ones

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• I have one friend that I've had since I was born, and she's from Coatzacoalcos. She's not really impressed or interested in the actor's life. My family isn't really either.

  Salma Hayek

  Actors, My Family, Born

  Interview with Sara Wayland, collider.com. June 22, 2010.

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• I say: If you don't know how to cook, I'm sure you have at least one friend who knows how to cook. Well, call that friend and say, 'Can I come next time and can I bring some food and can I come an hour or two hours ahead and watch you and help you?'

  Jacques Pepin

  Two, Watches, Next

  "Chef Jacques Pepin Eats Airport Hot Dogs, Rarely Spends More than $12 on Wine". The Bon Appétit Magazine Interview, www.bonappetit.com. November 14, 2011.

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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.

  Honore de Balzac

  Friendship, Best Friend, Real Friends

  Honore de Balzac (1884). “Cousin Pons”, p.35, Library of Alexandria

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• Sometimes it was worth all the disadvantages of marriage just to have that: one friend in an indifferent world.

  Erica Jong

  Marriage, Loyalty, World

  Fear of Flying ch. 10 (1973)

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• If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept because you will gain one friend.

  Saint Augustine

  Friendship, Hands, Two Friends

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• I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end... I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Friendship, Attitude, Power

  Abraham Lincoln (1982). “Abraham Lincoln, wisdom & wit”, Peter Pauper Pr

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