#true friends

However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship. ↗

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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He will never have true friends who is afraid of making enemies. ↗

— William Hazlitt

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False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports. ↗

— Richard Burton

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Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen. Like friends, too, we should return to them again and again for, like true friends, they will never fail us - never cease to instruct - never cloy. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

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True friends: only a few have 'em, but only a few will admit that they don't. ↗

— Brian Celio

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Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer. ↗

— Jean de La Fontaine

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True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation. ↗

— George Washington

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There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first; when you learn to live for others, they will live for you. ↗

— Paramahansa Yogananda

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True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island... to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing. ↗

— Baltasar Gracian

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True friends appear less moved than counterfeit. ↗

— Homer

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