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But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life; and thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine.
What a thing friendship is
World without end.
World without end.
He cast off his friends as a huntsman his pack,
For he knew when he pleas'd he could whistle them back.
For he knew when he pleas'd he could whistle them back.
Retaliation
Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
He that wrongs a friend
Wrongs himself more, and ever bears about
A silent court of justice in his breast,
Himself the judge and jury, and himself
The prisoner at the bar ever condemned.
Wrongs himself more, and ever bears about
A silent court of justice in his breast,
Himself the judge and jury, and himself
The prisoner at the bar ever condemned.
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On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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