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a real kindness is so far beyond all compliment, that it never appears more than when there is least of t'other mingled with it
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Chide me when I do anything that is not well, but then make haste to tell me that you have forgiven me, and that you are what I shall ever be, a faithful friend.
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How I should love that plain-heartedness you speak of, if you would use it; nothing is civil but that amongst friends.
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It is not kind in you to desire an increase of my friendship; that is to doubt it is not as great already as it can be, than which you cannot do me a greater injury.
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All letters, methinks, should be free and easy as one's discourse; not studied as an oration, nor made up of hard words like a charm.