"But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine."
― Thomas Jefferson
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Friendship
More From Thomas Jefferson
- "In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue."
- "Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny."
- "I abhor war and view it as the greatest scourge of mankind."
More In Friendship
- "The beginning of a friendship, the fact that two people out of the thousands around them can meet and connect and become friends, seems like a kind of magic to me. But maintaining a friendship requires work. I don’t mean that as a bad thing. Good art requires work as well."― Charles de Lint
- "She discovered with great delight that one does not love one’s children just because they are one’s children but because of the friendship formed while raising them."― Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- "An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind."― Buddha