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I am a person who treasures friendship as my life, for I have learned a lot from the popular sayings about it, which nourish me with the wisdom of friendship. Many of the sayings touch me deeply, and I'd like to share some of them with the readers of this article.

Let's talk about what friendship is from some sayings, from which we can have a better understanding of it, hopefully. Ralph Waldo Emerson told us, "Friendship is an essential ingredient in the making of a healthful, rewarding life." Friends take up a large portion in our life, and I think that we need understand the importance of friendship to us, and we should cherish the friendship that we have, for it is an "essential ingredient" in our life. The British writer, Charles Caleb Colton, said, "True friendship is like sound health .The value of it is seldom known until it is lost." He reminded us to cherish our friendship with the other friends, and not to regret when it is lost. What vivid comparison it is!

How to make the friendship between our friends and us lasting? "Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings," said Jean de La Bruyere, a French moralist. Don't you think so? Socrates, an ancient Greek philosopher, put it like this, "Don't try to win a friend by presenting gifts. You should instead contribute your sincere love and learn how to win others 'heart through appropriate ways." What we learn from it is that we should nourish the friendship between our friends and us with our love. Also, we should know how to make friends in proper ways. That is really important, right? "Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing." This is the suggestion from Benjamin Franklin. True, we shouldn't choose our friend hastily. Since friendship is very important and valuable in our life, I don't think that we can pick it at any place. We should know the persons that we want to make friends with, and gradually build up mutual understanding and trust with each other. It cannot be done in a day.

When the trust is built up, we should try to cultivate it. "Because friendships enhance our lives, it is important to cultivate them." said Robert Louis Stevenson, a British novelist and poet. Also, Emerson told us that betraying a trust is a very quick and painful way to terminate a friendship. Therefore, there is no reason for us to destroy the trust between our friends and us to ruin the friendship that we have. Emerson also said, "Some components of a thriving friendship

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