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" No one person can possibly combine all the elements supposed to make up what everyone means by friendship. "

Francis Marion Crawford

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" Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend. "

" I love the fact that so many of my readers are intelligent, exceptional, accomplished people with an open-minded love of diversity. But even more than that, I love it when my readers find lasting friendship with others of my readers - knowing that they met through their mutual affection for my books and characters makes me happy! "

Suzanne Brockmann

" Caring for but never trying to own may be a further way to define friendship. "

William Glasser

" A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire. "

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

" Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life. "

Jean de La Fontaine

" A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else. "

" One of the most mawkish of human delusions is the notion that friendship should be eternal, or, at all events, life-long, and that any act which puts a term to it is somehow discreditable. "

" Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable. "

" I have long enjoyed the friendship and companionship of Republicans because I am by instinct a teacher, and I would like to teach them something. "

" Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed. "

Ralph Waldo Emerson

" The sacrifices of friendship were beautiful in her eyes as long as she was not asked to make them. "

Hector Hugh Munro

" My reputation is too important to put it aside for purposes of some friendship. We have a job to do. "

Stephanie Tubbs Jones

" I am aloof by nature. I mind my own business. I'm good with everyone, and I get along fine with people. But work is work, and friendship is friendship. I never mix the two. "

" Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit. "

" I don't need to go onto Facebook and pretend to have friends I've never even met. To my mind, that kind of destroys the meaning of the word 'friend.' I take exception to that. Because I value and respect friendship. "

Stefanie Powers

" A youth, when at home, should be filial and, abroad, respectful to his elders. He should be earnest and truthful. He should overflow in love to all and cultivate the friendship of the good. When he has time and opportunity, after the performance of these things, he should employ them in polite studies. "

" Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another? "

Thomas Jefferson

" Friendship is one mind in two bodies. "

" When it comes to Pakistan, the first word that comes to the mind of the Chinese is 'iron brother.' To us Chinese, Pakistan is always a trustworthy friend who is as solid as iron. Actually, Chinese netizens refer to Pakistan as 'Iron Pak.' This testifies to the strength of China-Pakistan friendship. "

" The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words. "

Marcus Tullius Cicero

" Remember that a gesture of friendship, no matter how small, is always appreciated. "

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

" Matching tattoos don't ensure the longevity of a friendship, any more than any other mutual hardship. "

" I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend. "

Thomas Jefferson

" As I grow older, I think friendship between women is a thing to cherish. "

" In closing I wish to say that while I was sorely beset by a number of white riders in my racing days, I have also enjoyed the friendship of countless thousands of white men whom I class as among my closest friends. "

" I think that the friendship that women share is so powerful. In fact, there's nothing quite like it. People talk about mother-child bonds, but I would argue that female friendship bond is also in a league unto its own. "

Amanda de Cadenet

" Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship. "

" I had more friends on my hockey team than I did on my soccer team. I might have been better at soccer, to be honest. But I think it was more the friendship, and my family was more of a hockey family than a soccer family, so when I had to make a decision, I tried hockey, and it turned out to be a good decision. "

" She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them. "

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

" But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine. "

Thomas Jefferson