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Wisdom about friendship.
What people have learned about friendship the hard way, and what the classics said about it first.
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From the library
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more.
Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.
A friend loveth at all times.
A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
A froward man soweth strife: and a whisperer separateth chief friends.
Wealth maketh many friends; but the poor is separated from his neighbour.
The poor is hated even of his own neighbour: but the rich hath many friends.
Faithful are the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful.
A man void of understanding striketh hands, and becometh surety in the presence of his friend.
Many will intreat the favour of the prince: and every man is a friend to him that giveth gifts.
Ointment and perfume rejoice the heart: so doth the sweetness of a man’s friend by hearty counsel.
A man that hath friends must shew himself friendly: and there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother.
He that blesseth his friend with a loud voice, rising early in the morning, it shall be counted a curse to him.
All the brethren of the poor do hate him: how much more do his friends go far from him? he pursueth them with words, yet they are wanting to him.