10 Quotes by Samuel Johnson about friendship
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There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity.
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No one is much pleased with a companion who does not increase, in some respect, their fondness for themselves.
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To those who have lived long together, everything heard and everything seen recalls some pleasure communicated, some benefit conferred, some petty quarrel or some slight endearment. Esteem of great powers, or amiable qualities newly discovered may embroider a day or a week, but a friendship of twenty years is interwoven with the texture of life.
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Life has no pleasure higher or nobler than that of friendship.
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I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.
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Always, Sir, set a high value on spontaneous kindness. he whose inclination prompts him to cultivate your friendship of his own accord, will love you more than one whom you have been at pains to attach to you.
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Officious, innocent, sincere, Of every friendless name the friend.
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He endearing elegance of female friendship.
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The friendship which is to be practised or expected by common mortals, must take its rise from mutual pleasure, and must end when the power ceases of delighting each other.
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