There is nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends.
James BoswellRead
A companion loves some agreeable qualities which a man may possess, but a friend loves the man himself.
Interpretation
True friendship goes beyond superficial qualities and embraces the entire person.
This quote by James Boswell emphasizes the distinction between companionship and true friendship. While a companion may appreciate certain agreeable traits in a person, a true friend values and loves the individual for who they are in their entirety, including their flaws and imperfections.
In practice
In a speech about the importance of genuine relationships, you might quote this to highlight the difference between friends and mere acquaintances.
There is nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends.
He who has provoked the lash of wit, cannot complain that he smarts from it.
Friendship, "the wine of life," should, like a well-stocked cellar, be continually renewed.
Wine makes a man better pleased with himself. I do not say that it makes him more pleasing to others. Sometimes it does. But the danger is, that while a man grows better pleased with himself, he may be growing less pleasing to others. Wine gives a man nothing. It neither gives him knowledge nor wit; it only animates a man, and enables him to bring out what a dread of the company has presented.
There is something about building up a comradeship - that I still believe is the greatest of all feats - and sharing in the dangers with your company of peers. It's the intense effort, the giving of everything you've got. It's really a very pleasant sensation.
If you are a friend, why do you bite me so hard? If an enemy, why do you fawn on me?
We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over; so in a series of kindnesses there is at last one which makes the heart run over.
Friendship, if somebody holds out his hand toward you, you've got to reach and take it... There are too many people alone, and if you're lucky enough for somebody to want you as a friend, it's an obligation.
As hard as it is and as tired as I am, I force myself to get dinner at least once a week with my girlfriends, or have a sleepover. Otherwise my life is just work.
People really do like seeing their best friends humiliated; a large part of the friendship is based on humiliation; and that is an old truth,well known to all intelligent people.
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