Friendship: A Book of Quotations

By Dover Publications

Over 400 quotations, some more familiar than others, but all thoughtfully and precisely expressed. Includes such timeless observations as "A true friend is one soul in two bodies" (Aristotle) and "Friendship is like money, easier made than kept" (Samuel Butler). Also, thought-provoking reflections by Socrates, Confucius, Mark Twain, Dorothy Parker, Ambrose Bierce, and many others.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Dover Publications
• Release date: Dec 4, 2012
• ISBN: 9780486110134

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DOVER THRIFT EDITIONS FICTION

FLATLAND: A ROMANCE OF MANY DIMENSIONS, Edwin A. Abbott. (0-486-27263-X)

PRIDE AND PREJUDICE, Jane Austen. (0-486-28473-5)

JANE EYRE, Charlotte Brontë. (0-486-42449-9)

WUTHERING HEIGHTS, Emily Brontë. (0-486-29256-8)

THE AWAKENING, Kate Chopin. (0-486-27786-0)

HEART OF DARKNESS, Joseph Conrad. (0-486-26464-5)

A TALE OF TWO CITIES, Charles Dickens. (0-486-40651-2)

GREAT EXPECTATIONS, Charles Dickens. (0-486-41586-4)

A CHRISTMAS CAROL, Charles Dickens. (0-486-26865-9)

CRIME AND PUNISHMENT, Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Translated by Constance Garnett. (0-486-41587-2)

THE SCARLET LETTER, Nathaniel Hawthorne. (0-486-28048-9)

SIDDHARTHA, Hermann Hesse. (0-486-40653-9)

THE METAMORPHOSIS AND OTHER STORIES, Franz Kafka. (0-486-29030-1)

THE CALL OF THE WILD, Jack London. (0-486-26472-6)

FRANKENSTEIN, Mary Shelley. (0-486-28211-2)

THE STRANGE CASE OF DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE, Robert Louis Stevenson. (0-486-26688-5)

ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN, Mark Twain. (0-486-28061-6)

THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER, Mark Twain. (0-486-40077-8)

ETHAN FROME, Edith Wharton. (0-486-26690-7)

THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY, Oscar Wilde. (0-486-27807-7)

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DOVER THRIFT EDITIONS

General Editor: Paul Negri

Editor of This Volume: Herb Galewitz

Copyright

Copyright © 1999 by Dover Publications, Inc.

All rights reserved.

Bibliographical Note

Friendship: A Book of Quotations is a new work, first published by Dover Publications, Inc., in 1999.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Friendship: a book of quotations / edited by Herb Galewitz.

p. cm.—(Dover thrift editions)

9780486110134

1. Friendship Quotations, maxims, etc. I. Galewitz, Herb. II. Series.

PN6084.F8F579 1999

177’.62—dc21

99-29903 CIP

Manufactured in the United States by Courier Corporation

40892205

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Table of Contents

DOVER THRIFT EDITIONS FICTION

Title Page

Copyright Page

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Dictionaries generally define friend as one with whom one enjoys mutual affection and regard, friendship, the relationship between friends. What relatively bland, innocuous definitions for words that inspire so much passion in the pages that follow. Friendship is a concept always in flux, with as many interpretations as individuals who count its blessings and disappointments. So it is not unreasonable to add that friendship seen in this light can be quite a controversial subject—with a preponderance of proponents and many detractors as well. In addition to the negative and positive musings it inspires, friendship in a myriad of forms may also be discerned here. Not only friendship in the most general sense, but woman-woman, woman-man, summer friendships (characterized by fair-weather friends)—even animal-human friendships—are singled out for special approbation or scorn or both, again, depending upon