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Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other, and seven days are more than enough for others.

—Jane Austen, 1811

We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us but for ours to amuse them.

—Evelyn Waugh, 1963

In meeting again after a separation, acquaintances ask after our outward life, friends after our inner life.

—Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, 1880

Friendship’s a noble name, ’tis love refined.

—Susanna Centlivre, 1703

Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.

—Gore Vidal, 1973

I have often said that if I wish to name-drop, I have only to list my ex-friends.

—Norman Podhoretz, 1999

There are people whom one loves immediately and forever. Even to know they are alive in the world with one is quite enough.

—Nancy Spain, 1956

Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.

—Honoré de Balzac, 1847

There is no shop anywhere where one can buy friendship.

—Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, 1943

Of my friends, I am the only one I have left.

—Terence, 161 BC

I count myself in nothing else so happy / As in a soul remembering my good friends.

—William Shakespeare, c. 1595

Friends are fictions founded on some single momentary experience.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1864

He who has nothing has no friends.

—Greek proverb