—De Sales.
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You do surely bar the door upon your own liberty, if you deny your griefs to your friend.
—Shakespeare.
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When a man cannot fitly play his own part, if he have not a friend he may quit the stage.
—Bacon.
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We want one or two companions of intelligence, probity, and grace, to wear out life with; persons by whom we can measure ourselves, and who shall hold us fast to good sense and virtue.
—Emerson.