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  • When I was young I thought of friendship as a matter of total loyalty and unchanging preference and I was often disappointed. But as an adult I had come to see that it was more the refraction of some total faithfulness and joy of which we all had some primordial notion. The exchange of trust and the experience of understanding between two people was like a sign or witness to the possibilitity of eternal caring and understanding and communication.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Abigail McCarthy Quotes , Friendship Quotes , Loyalty Quotes
  • Almost every man we meet requires some civility; requires to be humored; - he has some fame, some talent, some whim of religion or philanthropy in his head that is not to be questioned, and which spoils all conversation with him. But a friend is a sane man who exercises not my ingenuity, but me.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Friendship Quotes , Exercise Quotes
  • I know nothing which life has to offer so satisfying as the profound good understanding, which can subsist, after much exchange ofgood offices, between two virtuous men, each of whom is sure of himself, and sure of his friend. It is a happiness which postpones all other gratifications, and makes politics, and commerce, and churches, cheap.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Friendship Quotes , Men Quotes