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Down East
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Thereâs nothing people like better than being asked an easy question. For some reason, weâre flattered when a stranger asks us where Maple Street is in our hometown and we can tell him.
â A NDREW A . R OONEY
And More by Andy Rooney
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A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.
â G EORGE M OORE
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Visitors should behave in such a way that the host and hostess feel at home.
â J . S . F ARYNSKI
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A TRUE FRIEND . . .
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A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your successes.
â D OUG L ARSON
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One does not make friends. One recognizes them.
â G ARTH H ENRICHS
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In prosperity, our friends know us; in adversity, we know our friends.
â J OHN C HURTON C OLLINS
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Strangers are friends that you have yet to meet.
â R OBERTA L IEBERMAN
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Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.
â O PRAH W INFREY
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I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar.
â R OBERT B RAULT
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It may be true that a touch of indifference is the safest foundation on which to build a lasting and delicate friendship.
â W . R OBERTSON N ICOLL
People and Books
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Getting people to like you is only the other side of liking them.
â N ORMAN V INCENT P EALE
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Itâs the things in common that make relationships enjoyable, but itâs the little differences that make them interesting.
â T ODD R UTHMAN
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The only way to have a friend is to be one.
â R ALPH W ALDO E MERSON
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Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.
â B ENJAMIN F RANKLIN
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Donât make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.
â T HOMAS J . W ATSON S R.
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The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.
â W ILLIAM B LAKE
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True friendship is a plant of slow growth.
â G EORGE W ASHINGTON
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It takes a long time to grow an old friend.
â J OHN L EONARD
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Friends and Friends of Friends
by Bernard Pierre Wolff
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The most called-upon prerequisite of a friend is an accessible ear.
â M AYA A NGELOU
The Heart of a Woman
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Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesnât seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.
â A NNE M ORROW L INDBERGH
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Could we see when and where we are to meet again, we would be more tender when we bid our friends good-by.
â M ARIE L OUISE DE LA R AMÃE
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Friends are relatives you make for yourself.
â E USTACHE D ESCHAMPS
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The golden rule of friendship is to listen to others as you would have them listen to you.
â D AVID A UGSBURGER
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You can make more friends in a month by being interested in them than in ten years by trying to get them interested in you.
â C HARLES L . A LLEN
Roads to Radiant Living
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We need old friends to help us grow old and new friends to help us stay young.
â L ETTY C OTTIN P OGREBIN
Among Friends
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If you want an accounting of your worth, count your friends.
â M ERRY B ROWNE
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National Enquirer
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My friends are my estate. Forgive me then the avarice to hoard them!
â E MILY D ICKINSON
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Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
â A RISTOTLE
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In my friend, I find a second self.
â I SABEL N ORTON
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No man is the whole of himself; his friends are the rest of him.
â H ARRY E MERSON F OSDICK
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Friendships multiply joys and divide griefs.
â H . G . B OHN
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A friend is someone you can do nothing with, and enjoy it.
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The Optimist Magazine
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We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for our ability to amuse