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Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.

What wealth is it to have such friends that we cannot think of them without elevation!

Tell all my friends in Concord that I do not send my love, but retain it still.

Methinks, if I loved him more, I should keep him--I should keep myself rather--at a more respectful distance.

At death our friends and relations either draw nearer to us and are found out, or depart further from us and are forgotten.

Friends are as often brought nearer together as separated by death.

Fatal is the discovery that our friend is fallible, that he has prejudices.

Having treated my friend ill, I wished to apologize; but, not meeting him, I made an apology to myself.

Our thoughts would imply that other men have friends, though we have not.

What signifies the census--this periodical numbering of men--to one who has no friend?