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I have not from your eyes that gentleness, And show of love, as I was wont to have; You bear too stubborn and too strange a hand, Over your friend that loves you. |
Shakespeare
When an enemy has tried every expedient in vain, he will pretend friendship, and then, by this pretext, execute designs which no enemy could have effected.
Saadi
Worldly friendship is profuse in honeyed words, passionate endearments, commendations of beauty, while true friendship speaks a simple honest language.
Francis de Sales
Ceremony and great professing renders friendship as much suspected as it does religion.
Wycherley