Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes About Friendship
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One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error.
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There is no man so friendless but that he can find a friend sincere enough to tell him disagreeable truths.
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The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning it.
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And, of all the things upon earth, I hold that a faithful friend is the best.
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It is difficult to say who do you the most mischief, enemies with the worst intentions, or friends with the best.
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It is a wonderful advantage to a man, in every pursuite or avocation, to secure an adviser in a sensible woman. In woman there is at once a subtle delicacy of tact, and a plain soundness of judgement, which are rarely combined to an equal degree in man. A woman, if she be really your friend, will have a sensitive regard for your character, honor, repute. She will seldom counsel you to do a shabby thing: for a woman friend always desires to be proud of you.
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Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
- Born: May 25, 1803
- Died: January 18, 1873
- Occupation: Novelist