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They who dare to ask anything of a friend, by their very request seem to imply that they would do anything for the sake of a friend.
—Cicero.
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To act the part of a true friend requires more conscientious feeling than to fill with credit and complacency any other station or capacity in social life.
—Ellis.
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There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer. For there is no such flatterer as is a man's self; and there is no such remedy against flattery of a man's self as the liberty of a friend.
—Bacon.
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