Friendship

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Business, you know, may bring money, but friendship hardly ever does.

Emma
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.

Northanger Abbey
Our friends - how distant, how mute, how seldom visited and little known. And I, too, am dim to my friends and unknown; a phantom, sometimes seen, often not. Life is a dream surely.

The Waves
Friendships, even the best of them, are frail things. One drifts apart.

To the Lighthouse
Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.

The Diary of Ana�s Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934
If you want enemies, excel your friends; but if you want friends, let your friends excel you.

How to Win Friends and Influence People
You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.

How to Win Friends and Influence People
A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals the secret of some hidden treasure.
Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend - or a meaningful day.
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