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Forsake not an old friend; for the new is not comparable to him: a new friend is as new wine; when it is old, thou shalt drink it with pleasure.--Apocrypha
To the query, "What is a friend?" his reply was "A single soul dwelling in two bodies."--Aristotle
Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.--W. H. Auden
I have three kinds of friends: those who love me, those who pay no attention to me, and those who detest me.--Sébastien-Roch Nicolas de Chamfort
Treat your friends as you do your pictures, and place them in their best light.--Jennie Jerome Churchill
Best friend, my well-spring in the wilderness!--George Eliot
A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of Nature.--Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is more shameful to distrust one's friends than to be deceived by them.--François, Duc de La Rochefoucauld
God gives us our relatives -- thank God we can choose our friends.--Ethel Watts Mumford
I can't forgive my friends for dying; I don't find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.--Logan Pearsall Smith
So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.--Robert Louis Stevenson
I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred -- that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorrupt. . . . If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.--Harriet Beecher Stowe
Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.--Virginia Woolf
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