Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.
A. Bronson Alcott
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Faithful are the wounds of a friend, But the kisses of an enemy are deceitful. Ointment and perfume rejoice the heart: So doth the sweetness of a man's friend by hearty counsel. Iron sharpeneth iron; So a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend. |
Proverbs xxvii. 6, 9, 17
Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals.
Goldsmith
To take the advice of some few friends is ever honourable; for lookers-on many times see more than gamesters, and the vale best discovereth the hill.
Bacon