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Geography has made us neighbors. History has made us friends. Economics has made us partners, and necessity has made us allies. Those whom God has so joined together, let no man put asunder. (To Canadian Parliament) – John Fitzgerald Kennedy	added by anonymous 14 years ago
We read that we ought to forgive our enemies but we do not read that we ought to forgive our friends. – Francis Bacon	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Never exaggerate your faults. Your friends will attend to that. – Francis Bacon	added by anonymous 14 years ago
I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see. – John Burroughs	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the sense shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourse of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness. – Helen Keller	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Just when you think that a person is just a backdrop for the rest of the universe, watch them and see that they laugh, they cry, they tell jokes ... they're just friends waiting to be made. – Dr. Jeffrey Borenstein	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Friends have all things in common. – Plato	added by anonymous 14 years ago
I'm always there to tell people that their life is not that bad. I wish it was easy to follow that advice It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not. – Mignon McLaughlin	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Leadership is not magnetic personality--that can just as well be a glib tongue. It is not 'making friends and influencing people'--that is flattery. Leadership is lifting a person's vision to higher sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations. – Peter Drucker	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Only solitary men know the full joys of frienship. Others have their family but to a solitary and an exile, his friends are everything. – Willa Cather	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Think where man's glory most begins and ends, And say my glory was I had such friends. – William Butler Yeats	added by anonymous 14 years ago
For how many things, which for our own sake we should never do, do we perform for the sake of our friends. – Marcus Tullius Cicero	added by anonymous 14 years ago
My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, you've had a great life. – Elbert Hubbard	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Never explain--your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway. – Elbert Hubbard	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty. – Sicilian Proverb	added by anonymous 14 years ago
There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends. – Homer	added by anonymous 14 years ago
A decent boldness ever meets with friends. – Homer	added by anonymous 14 years ago
May the gods grant you all things which your heart desires, and may they give you a husband and a home and gracious concord, for there is nothing greater and better than this -when a husband and wife keep a household in oneness of mind, a great woe to their enemies and joy to their friends, and win high renown. – Homer	added by anonymous 14 years ago
In times of prosperity friends will be plenty, in times of adversity not one in twenty. – English Proverb	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Joyfulness keeps the heart and face young. A good laugh makes us better friends with ourselves and everybody around us. – Orison Swett Marden	added by anonymous 14 years ago
In wealth many friends in poverty, not even relatives. – Japanese Proverb	added by anonymous 14 years ago
When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends. – Japanese Proverb	added by anonymous 14 years ago
No man will ever bring out of the Presidency the reputation which carries him into it...To myself, personally, it brings nothing but increasing drudgery and daily loss of friends. – Thomas Jefferson	added by anonymous 14 years ago
I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends. – Walt Whitman	added by anonymous 14 years ago

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