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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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There is certainly no greater happiness than to be able to look back on a life usefully and virtuously employed, to trace our own progress in existence, by such tokens as excite neither shame nor sorrow.
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To disappoint a friend is unpleasing; and he that forms expectations like yours, must be disappointed.