#friendship

Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend's success. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

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But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#become #come #courtesy #disagreeable #flatter

Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#any #conscious #each #face #friend

Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

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There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

#days #friend #greeting #his #homage

It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it. ↗

— E. W. Howe

#cold #friendship #get #may #most

The little trouble in the world that is not due to love is due to friendship. ↗

— E. W. Howe

#friendship #little #love #love is #to love

Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway. ↗

— Elbert Hubbard

#anyway #believe #explain #friends #need

Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life. ↗

— James F. Byrnes

#beautiful things #friendship #life #rare #self-interest