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“It is the ordinary lot of people to have no friends if they themselves care for nobody.” William Makepeace Thackeray, “Vanity Fair” - 1847

“In love there are no friends. Everywhere where there is a pretty woman hostility is open.” Victor Hugo, “Les Misérables” - 1862

“In the face of a true friend a man sees as it were a second self.” Marcus Tullius Cicero, “On Friendship” - 44 BC

“Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.” Jane Austen, “Northanger Abbey” - 1817

“Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.” Oscar Wilde, “Lady Windermere's Fan” - 1892

“Let's fight with gentle words till time lend friends, and friends their helpful swords.” William Shakespeare, “Richard II” - 1595

“Nature teaches beasts to know their friends.” William Shakespeare, “Coriolanus” - 1623

“'Mongst all foes that a friend should be the worst!” William Shakespeare, “The Two Gentlemen of Verona” - 1623

“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” - 1997

“He loved books; books are cold but safe friends.” Victor Hugo, “Les Misérables” - 1862

“And he who would be friends with God must remain alone, or make the whole world his friend.” Mahatma Gandhi, “The Story of my Experiments with Truth” - 1929

“Every friend in power is a friend lost.” Henry Adams, “The Education of Henry Adams” - 1906

“The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies, but also to hate his friends.” Friedrich Nietzsche, “Thus Spoke Zarathustra” - 1891

“I set it down as a fact that if all men knew what each said of the other, there would not be four friends in the world.” Blaise Pascal, “Pensées” - 1670

“Ever since college, I make friends. They get married. I lose friends.” Chuck Palahniuk, “Fight Club” - 1996

“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” - 1951

“To forget a friend is sad. Not every one has had a friend.” Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, “The Little Prince” - 1943

“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” - 1817

“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” - 1925

“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” - 1890

“The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.” Charles Dickens, “Nicholas Nickleby” - 1839

“the only way to have a friend is to be one.” Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Friendship” - 1841

“A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere.” Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Friendship” - 1841

“Have you seen how your best friends love everything about you—except the things that count?” Ayn Rand, “The Fountainhead” - 1943

“New friends . . . can often have a better time together than old friends.” F. Scott Fitzgerald, “Tender Is the Night” - 1934

“Each of us believes that what he has to say is much more important than anything the other might have to contribute!” J. K. Rowling, “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince” - 2005

“the companions of our childhood always possess a certain power over our minds which hardly any later friend can obtain.” Mary Shelley, “Frankenstein” - 1818

“The queerness doesn't matter, so long as they're friends” L. Frank Baum, “The Road to Oz” - 1909

“I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.” Henry David Thoreau, “Walden” - 1854

“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” - 1580

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

“my friends have made the story of my life.” Helen Keller, “The Story of My Life” - 1903

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

“Think twice before you speak to a friend in need.” Ambrose Bierce, “The Devil's Dictionary” - 1906

“That's friendship, each playing the potter to see what shapes we can make of the other.” Ray Bradbury, “Something Wicked This Way Comes” - 1962

“A friend should bear his friend's infirmities, But Brutus makes mine greater than they are.” William Shakespeare, “Julius Caesar” - 1623

“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” - 1600

“I count myself in nothing else so happy as in a soul remembering my good friends;” William Shakespeare, “Richard II” - 1595

“Who has not remarked the readiness with which the closest of friends and honestest of men suspect and accuse each other of cheating when they fall out on money matters? Everybody does it. Everybody is right, I suppose, and the world is a rogue.” William Makepeace Thackeray, “Vanity Fair” - 1847

“This world to me is like a lasting storm, whirring me from my friends.” William Shakespeare, “Pericles, Prince of Tyre” - 1609

“Books! And cleverness! There are more important things — friendship and bravery and — oh Harry — be careful!” J. K. Rowling, “Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone” - 1997

“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” - 16 October 1847

“My parents were my two best friends. My third best friend was an author who did not know I existed.” John Green, “The Fault in Our Stars” - 2012

“Comradeship is obvious and universal and open; but it is only one kind of affection; it has characteristics that would destroy any other kind. Anyone who has known true comradeship in a club or in a regiment, knows that it is impersonal.” G. K. Chesterton, “What's Wrong with the World” - 1910

“Between Silver and myself we got together in a few days a company of the toughest old salts imaginable—not pretty to look at, but fellows, by their faces, of the most indomitable spirit.” Robert Louis Stevenson, “Treasure Island” - 1883

“The sight of a friendly face in the great wilderness of London is a pleasant thing indeed to a lonely man.” Arthur Conan Doyle, “A Study in Scarlet” - 1887

“And she didn't know their names, but friends she knew they were, friends without names, songs without words, always the best.” Virginia Woolf, “Mrs Dalloway” - 1925

“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” - 1930

“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.” Henry Adams, “The Education of Henry Adams” - 1906

“Nuptial love maketh mankind; friendly love perfecteth it; but wanton love corrupteth, and embaseth it.” Francis Bacon, “The Essays of Francis Bacon” - 1597

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