“Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit”
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“Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit”
“A friend is a second self.”
“Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.”
“A friend to all is a friend to none.”
“A man dies as often as he loses his friends.”
“A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.”
“Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.”
“Friendship: A ship big enough to carry two in fair weather, but only one in foul”
“A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same ”
“Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence ”
“Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend ”
“Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a family and clan, whose blood is in your own veins”
“Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil”
“I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing ”
“It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them ”
“Life has no blessing like a prudent friend ”
“Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other”
“The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you ”
“The language of friendship is not words but meanings ”
“Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends”