Two persons will not be friends long if they cannot forgive each other's
little failings.

--_La Bruyere_.

There is this important difference between love and friendship: while
the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands
equalities.

--_Mme. de Maintenon_.

There is no folly equal to that of throwing away friendship, in a world
were friendship is so rare.

--_Bulwer-Lytton_.

The very ground and gist of a noble friendship is the cultivation in
common of the personal inner lives of those who partake in it, their
mutual reflection of souls and joint sharing of experience inciting them
to a constant betterment of their being and their happiness.

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Think of the importance of friendship in the education of men. It will
make a man honest; it will make him a hero; it will make him a saint. It
is the state of the just dealing with the just, the magnanimous with the
magnanimous, the sincere with the sincere, man with man.

--_Thoreau_.