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Friends (n.) get less care than anything: every one can tell exactly how many goats or sheep he has, but not how many friends.
Friendship (n.) that remains unimpaired to the end of life is the most difficult thing in the world.
Friendship (n.) is overhung by so many fatalities that it takes not only wisdom but good luck to escape them all.
Friendship (n.) has no more opposite maxim than this: love your friend with the consciousness that you may one day hate him.
Greed (n.) is the most fatal blow to friendship in most men; in the best men it is rivalry for office and reputation.
Old age (n.) is to most old men so hateful that they declare themselves under a weight heavier than Aetna.
Refusal (n.) to do wrong for a friend, though perfectly right, is attacked as a violation of the laws of friendship.