"Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot."

Lawrence, D. H. on speech
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"A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth."

Darwin, Charles R. on friends and friendship
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"In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures."

Gibran, Kahlil on friends and friendship
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"Friendship is neither a formality nor a mode: it is rather a life."

Grayson, David on friends and friendship   

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"One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error."

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G. on friends and friendship
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"Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures. It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health."

Stevenson, Robert Louis on communication
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"Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation."

Washington, George on friends and friendship
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"All that this world knows of living lies in giving -- and more giving; He that keeps, be sure he loses -Friendship grows by what it uses."

Maclaren, Alexander on giving   

"The most fatal disease of friendship is gradual decay, or dislike hourly increased by causes too slender for complaint, and too numerous for removal."

Johnson, Samuel on friends and friendship   

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"If you can't change your fate, change your attitude."

Tan, Amy on attitude
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"There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity."

Johnson, Samuel on confidence
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"Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does."

Austen, Jane on money
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"Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love."

Peguy, Charles on love
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"If you want to be successful, find someone who has achieved the results you want and copy what they do and you'll achieve the same results."

Robbins, Anthony on success
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"Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache; do be my enemy for friendship's sake."

Blake, William on friends and friendship
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"Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship."

Wilde, Oscar on women
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"False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports."

Burton, Sir Richard on friends and friendship
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"To each one of us friendship has a different meaning. For all of us it is a gift. Friendship needs to be cherished and nurtured. It needs to be cultivated on a daily basis. Then shall it germinate and yield its fruit."

Unknown, Source on friends and friendship
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"Friendship is essentially a partnership."

Aristotle on friends and friendship
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"Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies."

Aristotle on friends and friendship
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"Love is a friendship caught on fire."

Northern Exposure on love
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"Secrecy is the chastity of friendship."

Taylor, Jeremy on secrets   

"Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change. Education is essential to change, for education creates both new wants and the ability to satisfy them."

Commager, Henry S. on change
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