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Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others!

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To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind.

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We are fonder of visiting our friends in health than in sickness. We judge less favorably of their characters when any misfortune happens to them and...more

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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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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-lov...more

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