N old friendship is like an old

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piece of china. It is precious only just so long as it is perfect. Once it is broken, no matter how cleverly you mend it, it is good for nothing but to put on a shelf in a corner where it won't be too closely looked at.

—Amelia B. Edwards.

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F we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love our friends for their sakes rather than for our own.

-Charlotte Bronte.

SATIRE is a greater enemy to friendship than is anger.

-Attwell.

RUE, it is most painful not to

meet the kindness and affection you feel you have deserved, and have a right to expect from others; but it is a mistake to complain of it, for it is no use; you cannot extort friendship with a cocked pistol.

-Sidney Smith.

NEVER refuse any advance of friendship, for if nine out of ten bring you nothing, one alone may repay you. Everything is of service to one who knows how to use his tools.

-Madame de Tencin.

REASON is the torch of friendship, judgment its guide, tenderness

its aliment.

-De Bonald.