keep company

Verb

Meaning

be a companion to somebody

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The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best. Epictetus

We have to keep company with supposedly bad characters if we are to survive and not succumb to mental atrophy. People of good character, so called, are the ones who end up boring us to death. Thomas Bernhard

You, oh mature ones, keep company solely with other mature ones, and your maturity is so mature that it can only chum up with maturity! Witold Gombrowicz

Let me keep my distance, always, from those who think they have the answers. Let me keep company always with those who say "Look!" and laugh in astonishment, and bow their heads. Mary Oliver

Keep company with good men, and you'll increase their number. Italian Proverb

Desert and reward seldom keep company. Russian Proverb

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