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Old
friendships are like meats served up repeatedly, cold,
comfortless, and distasteful. The stomach turns against
them.
-- William Hazlitt
1778-1830, British Essayist
There are
persons who cannot make friends. Who are they? Those who
cannot be friends. It is not the want of understanding or
good nature, of entertaining or useful qualities, that you
complain of: on the contrary, they have probably many points
of attraction; but they have one that neutralizes all these
--they care nothing about you, and are neither the better
nor worse for what you think of them. They manifest no joy
at your approach; and when you leave them, it is with a
feeling that they can do just as well without you. This is
not sullenness, nor indifference, nor absence of mind; but
they are intent solely on their own thoughts, and you are
merely one of the subjects they exercise them upon. They
live in society as in a solitude.
-- William Hazlitt
1778-1830, British Essayist
There are no
rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot
force it any more than love.
-- William Hazlitt
1778-1830, British Essayist
The most
violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.
-- William Hazlitt
1778-1830, British Essayist
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I like a
friend the better for having faults that one can talk about.
-- William Hazlitt
1778-1830, British Essayist
There are few
things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem
we profess to entertain for our friends. It is little better
than a piece of quackery. The truth is, we think of them as
we please --that is, as they please or displease us.
-- William Hazlitt
1778-1830, British Essayist
There is no
friend as loyal as a book
-- Ernest Hemingway
1898-1961, American Writer
Never deceive
a friend.
-- Hipparchus
2nd Century BC, Rhodian
Astronomer
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