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1. Would you throw away a diamond because it pricked you? One good friend is not to be weighed against all the jewels of all the earth. If there is coolness or unkindness between us, let us come face to face and have it out. Quick, before the love grows cold. Life is too short to quarrel in, or carry dark thoughts of friends. It is easy to lose a friend, but a new one will not come for calling, nor make up for the old one when he comes.
2. The language of friendship is not words, but meanings. It is an intelligence above language.
3. He that does a base thing for a friend burns the golden thread which ties their hearts together.
4. A blessed thing it is for any man or woman to have a friend; one human soul whom we can trust utterly; who knows the best and the worst of us, and who loves us in spite of all our faults; who will speak the honest truth to us, while the world flatters us to our face, and laughs at us behind our back.
5. You may depend upon it that he is a good man whose intimate friends are all good, and whose enemies are decidedly bad.
6. Three men are my friends~~~he that loves me, he that hates me, he that is indifferent to me. He who loves me teaches me tenderness; who hates me teaches me caution; who is indifferent to me, teaches me self-reliance.
7. False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us when we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.
8. The loss of a friend is like that of a limb; time may heal the anguish of the wound, but the loss cannot be repaired.
9. "Next to hypocrisy in religion, there is nothing worse than hypocrisy in friendship."
10. "Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends."
