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In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.

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What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, ...more

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A true friend is the greatest of all blessings and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.

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Friendship is only a reciprocal conciliation of interests.

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What causes us to like new acquaintances is not so much weariness of our old ones or the pleasure of change as disgust at not being sufficiently adm...more

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It is with true love as with ghosts. Every one talks of it but few have seen it.