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A long life may be passed without finding a friend in whose understanding and virtue we can equally confide, and whose opinion we can value at once for its justness and sincerity.
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Friends are often chosen for similitude of manners, and therefore each palliates the other's failings, because they are his own.
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Parents we can have but once; and he promises himself too much, who enters life with the expectation of finding many friends.
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The longer we live, and the more we think, the higher value we learn to put on the friendship and tenderness of parents and of friends.
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Many friendships are formed by a community of sensual pleasures: all these will be cut off.
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To disappoint a friend is unpleasing; and he that forms expectations like yours, must be disappointed.
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Think only when you see me, that you see a man who loves you, and is proud and glad that you love him.