#friendship

What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love. ↗

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world. ↗

— Eleanor Roosevelt

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Instead of loving your enemies - treat your friends a little better. ↗

— E. W. Howe

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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

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Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It's not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything. ↗

— Muhammad Ali

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Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and to have her nonsense respected. ↗

— Charles Lamb

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What draws people to be friends is that they see the same truth. They share it. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

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A good friend can tell you what is the matter with you in a minute. He may not seem such a good friend after telling. ↗

— Arthur Brisbane

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But, based on my friendship with Evie as young mothers, I started going on freedom rides in 1966. ↗

— June Jordan

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It's not too late to develop new friendships or reconnect with people. ↗

— Morrie Schwartz

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