William Hazlitt quote: We often choose a friend as we do a mistress for no particular excellence in themselves but merely ...

We often choose a friend as we do a mistress for no particular excellence in themselves but merely from some circumstance that flatters our self-love.

~ William Hazlitt ~

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True friendship is self-love at second hand.

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It is well there is no one without fault for he would not have a friend in the world. He would seem to belong to a different species.

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He will never have true friends who is afraid of making enemies.