Friendship Quotes and Sayings
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There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man. ~ Edgar Allan Poe. Are you the new person drawn toward me?/ To begin with, take warning - I am surely far different from what you suppose;/ Do you suppose you will find in me your ideal?/ Do you think it so easy to have me become your lover?/ Do you think the friendship of me would be unalloy’d satisfaction?/ Do you think I am trusty and faithful?/ Do you see no further than this façade - this smooth and tolerant manner of me? ~ Walt Whitman. What a wretched lot of old shrivelled creatures we shall be by-and-by. Never mind - the uglier we get in the eyes of others, the lovelier we shall be to each other; that has always been my firm faith about friendship. ~ George Eliot. Always Sir, set a high value on spontaneous kindness. He whose inclination prompts him to cultivate your friendship of his own accord, will love you more than one whom you have been at pains to attract to you. ~ Samuel Johnson. |
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