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" Be courteous to all, but intimate with few; and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation. "
Speech and Scrap Book for Speakers - Page 267
1924 - 304 pages
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Honor to George Washington and Reading about George Washington: Pamphlets 1 ...

Albert Bushnell Hart - 1932 - 220 pages
...alone than in bid company." Courteous to all, intimate ivith few — "Be courteous to all, but intimste with few; and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence." Praise from a good friend — "Although the friendship of vour father may oblige him to see some things...
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Western Journal of Education, Volume 23

1917 - 220 pages
...will be growing while we are sleeping, and will survive us to make others happier. — Lowell. * * * Friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo...the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appelât ion. — Washington. * * * True liberty consists only in the power of doing what we ought...
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Friendship

Joel D. Block - 1980 - 244 pages
...panies is unwilling to hear the truth and the other is equally indisposed to speak it. OCERO, 50 BC Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo...adversity before it is entitled to the appellation. GEORGE WASHINGTON A true friend is somebody who can make us do what we can. RALPH WALDO EMERSON Thou...
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The Concise Columbia Dictionary of Quotations

Robert Andrews - 1989 - 414 pages
...— let us swear an eternal friendship. John Hookham Frere (1769-1846) British diplomat, author Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those...adversity before it is entitled to the appellation. George Washington (1732-1799) American president If I am pressed to say why I loved him, I feel it...
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The Columbia Dictionary of Quotations

Robert Andrews - 1993 - 1214 pages
...TWAIN (1835-1910). US author. Pudd'nhead Wilson, ch. 8. -Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar' (1894). 34 Be ndr GEORGE WASHINGTON (1 732-99), US general, president. Letter. 15 Jan. 1783. 35 Learn to reject friendship,...
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Phillips' Book of Great Thoughts and Funny Sayings

Bob Phillips - 1993 - 372 pages
...Emerson Just as yellow gold is tested in the fire, so is friendship to be tested by adversity. Ovid Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those...them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of low growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation....
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Get Out of Your Own Way: Overcoming Self-Defeating Behavior

Mark Goulston, Philip Goldberg - 1996 - 212 pages
...that something that was wrong has finally been made right. Getting Involved With the Wrong People "Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those...be well tried before you give them your confidence. " —GEORGE WASHINGTON "Maybe I should become a nun!" Judy proclaimed as she plopped into the chair....
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Understanding Cultures through Their Key Words: English, Russian, Polish ...

Anna Wierzbicka - 1997 - 328 pages
...in numerous traditional sayings and proverbs and in well-known works of literature. For example: Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those...adversity before it is entitled to the appellation. (George Washington, Letter, 1783) It's an overcome sooth for age an" youth And it brooks wi' nae denial...
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Celebrating Friendship

Judith Couchman, Evelyn Bence, Phyllis Bennett, Janet Kobobel Grant, Luci Swindoll, Beverly Wilson - 1998 - 84 pages
...in the Bible. Maybe you'll be so inspired, you'll run out and do something wonderful for a friend! True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and irithstand thf shocks ofadversilij before it is entitled to the appellation. ABRAHAM LINCOLN A Moment...
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Friendship: A Book of Quotations

Herb Galewitz - 1999 - 68 pages
...such mirth as does not make friends ashamed to look upon one another the next morning. IZAAK WALTON True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must...adversity before it is entitled to the appellation. A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man, mat actions, not words, are the true...
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