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

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

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

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

“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

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

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

“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

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

“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

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

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

“Friendship . . . is born at the moment when one man says to another 'What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .'” C. S. Lewis, The Four Loves

“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

“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

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

“I do not wish to treat friendships daintily, but with roughest courage. When they are real, they are not glass threads or frostwork, but the solidest thing we know.” Ralph Waldo Emerson, Friendship

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

“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

“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

“But I don't think I ought to leave my friends like this, after all we have gone through together.” J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit

“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

“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

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

“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

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

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

“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

“There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends.” Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

“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

“You are the bravest person I know, and you are my friend. I don’t care if you are imaginary.” Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book

“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

“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

“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

“Each had his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart; and his friends could only read the title” Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room

“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

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

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

“Good Friends Are Hard to Find and Impossible to Forget” John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“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

“the friends that we have lost do not repose in the bosom of the earth, but are buried deep in our hearts, and it has been thus ordained that we may always be accompanied by them.” Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

“a friend's praise is always sweeter than a dozen newspaper puffs.” Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

“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

“Business . . . may bring money, but friendship hardly ever does.” Jane Austen, Emma

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

“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

“FRIENDSHIP, n. A ship big enough to carry two in fair weather, but only one in foul.” Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

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

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

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

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