#true friendship

True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

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It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what true friendship means. ↗

— Charles Kingsley

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However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship. ↗

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports. ↗

— Richard Burton

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Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer. ↗

— Jean de La Fontaine

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True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation. ↗

— George Washington

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True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island... to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing. ↗

— Baltasar Gracian

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The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses. ↗

— David Storey

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True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks. ↗

— St. Jerome

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One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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