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“It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.” J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

“I don’t know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.” J. R. R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies, but also to hate his friends.” Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

“Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.” Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

“Misfortune tests the sincerity of friends.” Aesop, Aesop's Fables

“Nature teaches beasts to know their friends.” William Shakespeare, Coriolanus

“the companions of our childhood always possess a certain power over our minds which hardly any later friend can obtain.” Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

“If all the world hated you, and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved you, and absolved you from guilt, you would not be without friends.” Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.” Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

“I'm always saying 'Glad to've met you' to somebody I'm not at all glad I met. If you want to stay alive, you have to say that stuff, though.” J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“Have no friends not equal to yourself.” Confucius, Analects

“The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.” Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness

“There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves; it is not my nature.” Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

“What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it.” J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead” F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“Nobody likes being alone that much. I don't go out of my way to make friends, that's all. It just leads to disappointment.” Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“To forget a friend is sad. Not every one has had a friend.” Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

“We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over, so in a series of kindnesses there is at last one which makes the heart run over.” Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

“You can trust us to stick to you through thick and thin–to the bitter end. And you can trust us to keep any secret of yours–closer than you keep it yourself. But you cannot trust us to let you face trouble alone, and go off without a word. We...” J. R. R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.” Charles Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby

“the only way to have a friend is to be one.” Ralph Waldo Emerson, Friendship

“I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.” Henry David Thoreau, Walden

“Men have no more time to understand anything. They buy things all ready made at the shops. But there is no shop anywhere where one can buy friendship, and so men have no friends any more.” Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

“Have you seen how your best friends love everything about you—except the things that count?” Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

“To be friendless is indeed to be unfortunate, but the hearts of men, when unprejudiced by any obvious self-interest, are full of brotherly love and charity.” Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

“In love there are no friends. Everywhere where there is a pretty woman hostility is open.” Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one” Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“no person is your friend (or kin) who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow and be perceived as fully blossomed as you were intended.” Alice Walker, In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens

“In the face of a true friend a man sees as it were a second self.” Marcus Tullius Cicero, On Friendship

“I count myself in nothing else so happy as in a soul remembering my good friends;” William Shakespeare, Richard II

“A friend should bear his friend's infirmities, But Brutus makes mine greater than they are.” William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar

“Nuptial love maketh mankind; friendly love perfecteth it; but wanton love corrupteth, and embaseth it.” Francis Bacon, The Essays of Francis Bacon

“Every friend in power is a friend lost.” Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams

“Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature—it requires, in fact, the nature of a true Individualist—to sympathise with a friend's success.” Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man under Socialism

“Most friendship is feigning, most loving mere folly” William Shakespeare, As You Like It

“The more people I meet the happier I become. From the meanest creature one departs wiser, richer, more conscious of one's blessings.” Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot

“the arms of friendship are long enough to reach from the one end of the world to the other” Michel de Montaigne, The Essays of Michel de Montaigne

“I will buy with you, sell with you, talk with you, walk with you, and so following; but I will not eat with you, drink with you, nor pray with you.” William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice

“I wanted to be one of those people who have streaks to maintain, who scorch the ground with their intensity. But for now, at least I knew such people, and they needed me, just like comets need tails.” John Green, Looking for Alaska

“It is the ordinary lot of people to have no friends if they themselves care for nobody.” William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair

“It may therefore be judged indecent in me to come forward on this occasion, but when I see a fellow creature about to perish through the cowardice of her pretended friends, I wish to be allowed to speak, that I may say what I know of her character.” Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

“sometimes I feel as though you are the best friend I have in King’s Landing, and sometimes I feel you are my worst enemy.” George R. R. Martin, A Clash of Kings

“I didn't have any friends at school, didn't want any. I felt better being alone. I sat on a bench and watched the others play and they looked foolish to me.” Charles Bukowski, Ham on Rye

“Think twice before you speak to a friend in need.” Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

“This world to me is like a lasting storm, whirring me from my friends.” William Shakespeare, Pericles, Prince of Tyre

“I'll try a pagan friend, thought I, since Christian kindness has proved but hollow courtesy.” Herman Melville, Moby-Dick

“Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.” Samuel Butler, The Note-Books of Samuel Butler

“That’s the problem with winning right from the start, thought Ender. You lose friends.” Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game

“my friends have made the story of my life.” Helen Keller, The Story of My Life

“Friends come and go, clothing is packed and unpacked, households are continually purged of unnecessary items, and as a result, not much sticks.” Nicholas Sparks, The Lucky One

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