Alexander McCall Smith (1948) British writer
The Unbearable Lightness of Scones, chapter 8.
The 44 Scotland Street series
“Failure can get to be a rather comfortable old friend.”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified
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Mark Manson (1984) American writer and blogger
Source: https://www.facebook.com/Markmansonnet/photos/a.371143826347930/2571200859675538
“New friends can often have a better time together than old friends.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940) American novelist and screenwriter
Source: Tender is the Night
“It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet
Source: Emerson in His Journals
“Wonder not at the failures, rather learn to marvel at success.”
Swami Samarpanananda Monk, Author, Teacher
Junglezen Sheru ( Page 89 )
Thomas à Kempis (1380–1471) German canon regular
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 442.
“No one is completely unhappy at the failure of his best friend.”
Groucho Marx (1890–1977) American comedian
From his book Groucho and Me. It is a variation of a maxim by 17th-century French nobleman François de La Rochefoucauld: "In the adversity of our best friends, we often find something that is not displeasing." (Maxim 99 from Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims, 1665 edition.)