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title: "4 Friendship Implies Quotes by 4 authors"
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> [“Do not choose friends who only flatter you, but who understand you. True friendship implies willingness to speak frankly, to point out…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eraldo-banovac/do-not-choose-friends-who-only-flatter-you-but-who-understand-you/)

[Eraldo Banovac](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eraldo-banovac/)

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> [The way to make a true friend is to be one. Friendship implies loyalty, esteem, cordiality, sympathy, affection, readiness to aid, to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/b-c-forbes/the-way-to-make-a-true-friend-is-to-be-one-friendship-implies-loyalty/)

[B. C. Forbes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/b-c-forbes/)

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> [“With both of these ideas—social obligation and implied secrecy—friendships run afoul of a manager's professional obligations. A manager cannot expect to be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-horstman/with-both-of-these-ideas-social-obligation-and-implied-secrecy/)

[Mark Horstman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-horstman/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a14/mark-horstman-36085_friendship_with-both-of-these-ideas-social-obligati_655389.jpg)

> [. . . For friendship implies individuality; whereas comradeship really implies the temporary subordination, if not the temporary swamping of individuality. Friends…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-k-chesterton/for-friendship-implies-individuality-whereas-comradeship-really/)

[Gilbert K. Chesterton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gilbert-k-chesterton/)

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