A Friend is the one who comes in,
  When the whole world has gone out
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  A friend is a person who goes around saying 
  nice things about you behind your back
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  True Friends are those who, when you've made a fool 
  of yourself, don't think you've done a permanent job
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  Be Kind, for everyone you meet
  is fighting a hard battle.
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  If we really want to love, 
  we must learn how to forgive
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  A hundred men may make an encampment, but it
  takes a woman to make a home Chinese Proverb
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  "I can forgive, but I cannot forget", Is only
  another way of saying, "I will not forgive"
  Henry Ward Beecher
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  We all make mistakes,
  but everyone makes different mistakes
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  Be patient with the faults of others; 
  they have had to be patient with yours!
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  A friend is a present you give yourself
  Robert Louis Stevenson
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  Do not use a hatchet to remove
  a fly from your friends forehead
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  To handle yourself, use your head.
  To handle others, use your heart
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  Believe nothing against another, but on good authority; 
  nor report what may hurt another, unless it be greater
  hurt to some other to conceal it
  William Penn
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  You will find that if you share your friend's burden, 
  both of you will walk a little straighter.
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  It's smart to pick your friends-- but not to pieces!
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  A Friend will Strengthen you with her prayers, 
  bless you with her love and encourage you with her hope.
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  If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
  Mother Teresa
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  All we can do is make the best of our friends, 
  love and cherish what is good in them and keep
  out of the way of what is bad
  Thomas Jefferson
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  There is a vast difference between
  putting your nose in other people's business
  and putting your heart in other people's problems
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  NEVER injure a friend, even in jest Cicero
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  A friend thinks of you when all others
  are thinking of themselves 

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  Well that about does it .... I hope some of these made you 
  smile and think of your friends  :o)