"Friendship is a sheltering tree."

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor on friends and friendship
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"Your friends will know you better in the first minute they meet you than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years."

Bach, Richard on friends and friendship
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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."

Augustine, St. on friends and friendship
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"I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him."

Augustine, St. on friends and friendship
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"In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds."

Aristotle on friends and friendship
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"A true friend is one soul in two bodies."

Aristotle on friends and friendship
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"Without friends, no one would want to live, even if he had all other goods."

Aristotle on friends and friendship
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"I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship."

Aretino, Pietro on friends and friendship
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"Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious."

Aquinas, St. Thomas on friends and friendship
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"Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief."

Addison, Joseph on friends and friendship
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"One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim."

Adams, Henry Brooks on friends and friendship
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"The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover."

Addison, Joseph on friends and friendship
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