Oliver Goldsmith Quotes About Friendship
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O friendship! thou fond soother of the human breast, to thee we fly in every calamity; to thee the wretched seek for succor; on thee the care-tired son of misery fondly relies; from thy kind assistance the unfortunate always hopes relief, and may be sure of--disappointment.
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Friendship is made up of esteem and pleasure; pity is composed of sorrow and contempt: the mind may for some time fluctuate between them, but it can never entertain both at once.
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I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.
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Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
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He cast off his friends as a huntsman his pack, For he knew when he pleas'd he could whistle them back.
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The first time I read an excellent book, it is to me just as if I had gained a new friend. When I read a book over I have perused before, it resembles the meeting with an old one.
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