A man may have a thousand intimate acquaintances and not a friend among them all. If you have one friend, think yourself happy.
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Go slowly to the entertainment of your friends, but quickly to their misfortunes.
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LEAVE A FRIEND.
Leave a friend! So base I am not. I followed him in his prosperity, when the skies were clear and shining, and will not leave him when storms begin to rise; as gold is tried by the furnace, and the baser metal is shown, so the hollow-hearted friend is known by adversity.
—Metastasio.
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Do not lose sight of old attachments for the sake of making new friendships.