A person, typically someone other than a family member, spouse or lover, whose company one enjoys and towards whom one feels affection.
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The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one.
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1841, Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Friendship”, in Essays, volume I:
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...if you consider any man a friend whom you do not trust as you trust yourself, you are mightily mistaken and you do not sufficiently understand what true friendship means.
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1917, Richard M. Gummere translating Seneca as Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales, Loeb Classical Library, Vol. I, No. 3:
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...he who looks upon a true friend, looks, as it were, upon a sort of image of himself. Wherefore friends, though absent, are at hand; though in need, yet abound; though weak, are strong; and—harder saying still—though dead, are yet alive; so great is the esteem on the part of their friends, the tender recollection and the deep longing that still attends them.
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1923, William Armistead Falconer translating Cicero as De Amicitia, Loeb Classical Library, Vol. XX, p. 34:
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...you are my devoted friend too. You do more and work harder and oh shit I'd get maudlin about how damned swell you are. My god I'd like to see you... You're a hell of a good guy.
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1927 Mar. 31, Ernest Hemingway, letter to F. Scott Fitzgerald:
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Definition of a friend: One who walks in—when the rest of the world walks out.
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1933 Dec. 12, Walter Winchell, "On Broadway", Scranton Republican, p. 5:
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John and I have been friends ever since we were roommates at college. Trust is important between friends. I used to find it hard to make friends when I was shy.
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We became friends in the war and remain friends to this day. We were friends with some girls from the other school and stayed friends with them.