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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. (Adams Brooks)
Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking. (Adams Brooks)
Old friends become bitter enemies on a sudden for toys and small offenses. (Adams Brooks)
When a sinister person means to be your enemy, they always start by trying to become your friend. (Adams Brooks)
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. (Adams Brooks)
A friend in power is a friend lost. (Adams Brooks)
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. (Adams Brooks)
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. (Adams Brooks)
Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots. (Adams Brooks)
Never shall I forget the days I spent with you. Continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours. (Adams Brooks)
A favorite has no friend! (Adams Brooks)
Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness. (Adams Brooks)
Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years. (Adams Brooks)
There is an Italian proverb which saith, From my enemy let me defend myself; but from a pretensed friend Lord deliver me. (Adams Brooks)
It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them. (Adams Brooks)
The only way to have a friend is to be one. (Adams Brooks)
Get not your friends by bare compliments, but by giving them sensible tokens of your love. (Adams Brooks)
Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love. (Adams Brooks)
True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation. (Adams Brooks)
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. (Adams Brooks)
A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends. (Adams Brooks)
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