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THE BOOK OF FRIENDSHIP

A Little Manual of Comradeship

REGINALD WRIGHT KAUFFMAN

Philadelphia Henry Altemus Company

Copyright, 1909, by Howard E. Altemus.

#THE BOOK OF FRIENDSHIP#

THE BOOK OF FRIENDSHIP

When I have attempted to join myself to others by services, it proved an intellectual trick,--no more. They eat your service like apples, and leave you out. But love them, and they feel you, and delight in you all the time.

--Emerson.

So, if I live or die to serve my friend, ’Tis for my love,--’tis for my friend alone, And not for any rate that friendship bears In heaven or on earth.

--George Eliot

Old friends are the only ones whose hold is upon our inmost being; others but half replace them.

--Voltaire

True friends appear less mov’d than counterfeit.

--Horace

It is sublime to feel and say of another, I need never meet, or speak, or write to him; we need not reënforce ourselves, or send tokens of remembrance; I rely on him as on myself; if he did thus and thus, I know it was right.

--Emerson

A true Friendship is as wise as it is tender. The parties to it yield implicitly to the guidance of their love, and know no other law but kindness.

--Henry D. Thoreau

Friendship is a vase, which, when it is flawed by heat or violence or accident, may as well be broken at once; it can never be trusted after. The more graceful and ornamental it was, the more clearly do we discern the hopelessness of restoring it to its former state. Coarse stones, if they are fractured, may be cemented again; precious stones never.

--Landor

Friendship’s the wine of life.

--Young