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Candor is a compliment; it implies equality. It's how true friends talk.

— Peggy Noonan

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Candor is a proof of both a just frame of mind, and of a good tone of breeding. It is a quality that belongs equally to the honest man and to the gentleman.

— James F. Cooper

Your candor is worth everything to your cause. It is refreshing to find a person with a new theory who frankly confesses that he finds difficulties, insurmountable, at least for the present.

— Asa Gray

Friends are generally of the same sex, for when men and women agree, it is only in the conclusions; their reasons are always different.

— George Santayana

Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.

— Honore de Balzac

The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses.

— David Storey

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

— Samuel Butler

No one person can possibly combine all the elements supposed to make up what everyone means by friendship.

— Francis Marion Crawford

Friendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports.

— Kenneth Branagh

✗Opposing Perspectives

It is always well to accept your own shortcomings with candor but to regard those of your friends with polite incredulity.

— Russell Lynes

Friendship is something that creates equality and mutuality, not a reward for finding equality or a way of intensifying existing mutuality.

— Rowan Williams