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What a wretched lot of old shrivelled creatures we shall be by-and-by. Never mind - the uglier we get in the eyes of others, the lovelier we shall be to each other; that has always been my firm faith about friendship. (Sylva Carmen)
Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking. (Sylva Carmen)
Old friends become bitter enemies on a sudden for toys and small offenses. (Sylva Carmen)
When a sinister person means to be your enemy, they always start by trying to become your friend. (Sylva Carmen)
One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim. (Sylva Carmen)
A friend in power is a friend lost. (Sylva Carmen)
It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship. (Sylva Carmen)
Do not have evil-doers for friends, do not have low people for friends: have virtuous people for friends, have for friends the best of men. (Sylva Carmen)
Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots. (Sylva Carmen)
Never shall I forget the days I spent with you. Continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours. (Sylva Carmen)
A favorite has no friend! (Sylva Carmen)
Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness. (Sylva Carmen)
Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years. (Sylva Carmen)
There is an Italian proverb which saith, From my enemy let me defend myself; but from a pretensed friend Lord deliver me. (Sylva Carmen)
It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them. (Sylva Carmen)
The only way to have a friend is to be one. (Sylva Carmen)
Get not your friends by bare compliments, but by giving them sensible tokens of your love. (Sylva Carmen)
Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love. (Sylva Carmen)
True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation. (Sylva Carmen)
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation. (Sylva Carmen)
A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends. (Sylva Carmen)
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