Chapter 50
True friends antic.i.p.ate each other's wants.
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Friends are sometimes like mushrooms, they spring up in out-of-the-way places.
695
At the gate of abundance there are many brothers and friends; at the gate of misfortune there is neither brother nor friend.
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It is one of the severest tests of friends.h.i.+p to tell a man of his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see the stain of sin upon him, and to go to him alone and speak painful truths in touching, tender words,--that is friends.h.i.+p, and a friends.h.i.+p as rare as it is precious.
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Henceforth there shall be no other contention betwixt you and me, than which shall outdo the other in point of friends.h.i.+p.
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Cultivate your neighbor's friends.h.i.+p; he needs you and you need him.
699
Friends.h.i.+p often ends in love; But love, in friends.h.i.+p --Never.
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Renewed friends.h.i.+ps require more care than those that have never been broken.
--_Rochefoucauld._
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_Need for making Acquaintance._--If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man should keep his friends.h.i.+p _in constant repair_.
--_Sam'l Johnson._
702
Suspicion kills friends.h.i.+p.
--_Hugh Black._
703
Who friends.h.i.+p with a knave hath made, Is judg'd a partner in the trade.
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What need of years, long years, to prove The sense of friends.h.i.+p, or of love!
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There is truly nothing purer and warmer than our first friends.h.i.+p, our first love.
--_Jean Paul Richter._
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The permanency of most friends.h.i.+ps depends upon the continuity of good fortune.
707
Quickly made friends.h.i.+ps, are often eagerly and quickly ended.
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FRIENDs.h.i.+P--RARITY OF.
Rare is true love: true friends.h.i.+p is still rarer.
--_Rochefoucauld._
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Real friends.h.i.+p is like a sheltering tree.
710
He is my friend that helps me, and not he that pities me.