them.
â E VELYN W AUGH
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A loyal friend laughs at your jokes when theyâre not so good, and sympathizes with your problems when theyâre not so bad.
â A RNOLD H . G LASOW
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The Wall Street Journal
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How rare and wonderful is that flash of a moment when we realize we have discovered a friend.
â W ILLIAM R OTSLER
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To a friendâs house, the road is never long.
â A NONYMOUS
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A friend hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.
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Pioneer Girls Leadersâ Handbook
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True friendship is like phosphorescenceâit glows best when the world around you goes dark.
â D ENISE M ARTIN
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The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right.
â M ARK T WAIN
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A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.
â A RNOLD H . G LASOW
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It is important for our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.
â M IGNON M C L AUGHLIN
The Neuroticâs Notebook
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The surest way to lose a friend is to tell him something for his own good.
â S ID A SCHER
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If itâs painful for you to criticize your friends, youâre safe in doing it; if you take the slightest pleasure in it, thatâs the time to hold your tongue.
â A LICE D UER M ILLER
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Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty.
â S ICILIAN PROVERB
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A friend is a lot of things, but a critic he isnât.
â B ERN W ILLIAMS
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A friend is someone who can see through you and still enjoys the show.
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Farmers Almanac
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Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer.
â E D C UNNINGHAM
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The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.
â E LISABETH F OLEY
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Some of the most rewarding and beautiful moments of a friendship happen in the unforeseen open spaces between planned activities. It is important that you allow these spaces to exist.
â C HRISTINE L EEFELDT AND E RNEST C ALLENBACH
The Art of Friendship
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We love those who know the worst of us and donât turn their faces away.
â W ALKER P ERCY
Love in the Ruins
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No man can be called friendless when he has God and the companionship of good books.
â E LIZABETH B ARRETT B ROWNING
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An enemy who tells the truth contributes infinitely more to our improvement than a friend who deludes us.
â L OUIS- N . F ORTIN
Pensées, Proverbes, Maximes
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It pays to know the enemyânot least because at some time you may have the opportunity to turn him into a friend.
â M ARGARET T HATCHER
Downing Street Years
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Pay attention to your enemies, for they are the first to discover your mistakes.
â A NTISTHENES
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A friend is someone who makes me feel totally acceptable.
â E NE R IISNA
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The best mirror is a friendâs eye.
â G AELIC PROVERB
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T HE BEST HELPING HAND . . .
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Sometimes the best helping hand you can get is a good, firm push.
â J OANN T HOMAS
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What do we live for if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?
â G EORGE E LIOT
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Whoever is spared personal pain must feel himself called to help in diminishing the pain of others.
â A LBERT S CHWEITZER
Memoirs of Childhood and Youth
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Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.
âHebrews 13:2
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No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it for anyone else.
â C HARLES D ICKENS
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Great opportunities to help others seldom come, but small ones surround us every day.
â S ALLY K OCH
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Wisconsin
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I have always held firmly to the thought that each one of us can do a little to bring some