Few things tend more to alienate friendship than a want of punctuality in our engagements. I have known the breach of a promise to dine or sup to break up more than one intimacy.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Every friendship goes through ups and downs. Dysfunctional patterns set in; external situations cause internal friction; you grow apart and then bounce back together.
In romance, we feel the need to zoom in and expound on our partner's foibles in intimate detail; in friendship, we tend to do the opposite, avoiding confrontation through fear, lethargy or both.
Friendship is a difficult, dangerous job. It is also (though we rarely admit it) extremely exhausting.
Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.
Friendship is mutual blackmail elevated to the level of love.
Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy.
Friendships, like marriages, are dependent on avoiding the unforgivable.
No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth.
As soon as you try to describe a close friendship, it loses something.
The ideal friendship is to feel as one while remaining two.
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