Samuel Johnson quote: That friendship may be at once fond and lasting there must not only be equal virtue on each part ...

That friendship may be at once fond and lasting there must not only be equal virtue on each part but virtue of the same kind not only the same end must be proposed but the same means must ...

~ Samuel Johnson ~

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If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life he will soon find himself left alone.

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The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef love like being enlivened with champagne.

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It is foolish to make experiments upon the constancy of a friend as upon the chastity of a wife.

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No man is much pleased with a companion who does not increase in some respect his fondness of himself.

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Friendship is a union of spirits a marriage of hearts and the bond there of virtue.

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Friendship peculiar boon of Heaven The noble mind's delight and pride To men and angels only given To all the lower world denied.

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Men only become friends by community of pleasures.

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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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Friendship is seldom lasting but between equals or where the superiority on one side is reduced by some equivalent advantage on the other.

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The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef.

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A man Sir should keep his friendship in constant repair.

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There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity.

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Always set high value on spontaneous kindness. He whose inclination prompts him to cultivate your friendship of his own accord will love you more than...