true friend, overlooks your failure, tolerates your success
One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.
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Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.
Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare - and precious as a pearl.
Real friendship, like real poetry
I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar.
Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.
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It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.