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Wear a smile and have friends, wear a scowl and have wrinkles. – George Eliot	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Our critics are our friends; they show us our faults. – Benjamin Franklin	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Gold for friends, Lead for foes. – Anastasio Somoza García, Dictator of Nicaragua 1936-1956	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends? – Abraham Lincoln	added by anonymous 13 years ago
The man who stops making new friends eventually will have none. – James Boswell	added by anonymous 13 years ago
If you lose money you lose much, If you lose friends you lose more, If you lose faith you lose all. – Eleanor Roosevelt	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Our friends should be companions who inspire us, who help us rise to our best. – Joseph B. Wirthlin	added by anonymous 13 years ago
My candle burns at both ends; It will not last the night; But, ah, my foes, and oh, my friends, It gives a lovely light. – Edna St. Vincent Millay	added by anonymous 13 years ago
It's the friends you can call up at four a.m. that matter. – Marlene Dietrich	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Critics are our friends, they tell us our faults. – Benjamin Franklin	added by anonymous 13 years ago
But all who are not lunitics are agreed about certain things: That it is better to be alive than dead, better to be adequately fed than starved, better to be free than to be a slave. Many people desire these things only for themselves and their friends; they are quite content that their enemies should suffer. These people can be refuted by science: Mankind has become so much one family that we cannot insure our own prosperity except by insuring that of everyone else. If you wish to be happy yourself, you must resign yourself to seeing others also happy. – Bertrand Russell, from the essay "The Science to Save Us From Science"	added by anonymous 13 years ago
I have great faith in fools; self-confidence, my friends call it. – Edgar Allan Poe	added by anonymous 13 years ago
But thus do I counsel you, my friends: distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful! – Friedrich Nietzsche, Also Sprach Zarathustra, Chapter 29	added by anonymous 13 years ago
We must uphold the promise of Roosevelt, Truman, Kennedy, Johnson, Carter, and Clinton and never allow the President and his Republican friends to threaten Social Security by putting it on the Wall Street trading block. – John Kerry, Speech at Democratic Convention, May 31, 2002	added by anonymous 13 years ago
And say my glory was I had such friends. – William Butler Yeats	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Express a mean opinion of yourself occasionally; it will show your friends that you know how to tell the truth. – Edgar Watson Howe	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Friends are great and always seem to work by the appropriate will of God. – Jason Mraz	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Speak of things public to the public, but of things lofty and secret only to the loftiest and most private of your friends. Hay to the ox and sugar to the parrot. – Johannes Trithemius, 1488	added by anonymous 13 years ago
I am wealthy in my friends. – William Shakespeare	added by anonymous 13 years ago
We are not enemies but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic cords of memory shall swell when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of nature. – Abraham Lincoln	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them? – Abraham Lincoln	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends. – Henry Ward Beecher	added by anonymous 13 years ago
It takes a great deal of courage to stand up to your enemies, but even more to stand up to your friends. – J. K. Rowling	added by anonymous 13 years ago
God gives us our relatives--thank God he lets us choose our friends. – Ethel Watts Mumford	added by anonymous 13 years ago

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