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Women, like princes, find few real friends.

LORD LYTTLETON-Advice to a Lady. St. 2.

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Friends are like melons. Shall I tell you why? To find one good, you must a hundred try.

CLAUDE MERMET-Epigram on Friends.

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As we sail through life towards death,
Bound unto the same port-heaven,-
Friend, what years could us divide?

D. M. MULOCK-Thirty Years. A Christmas
Blessing.

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We have been friends together

In sunshine and in shade.

CAROLINE E. S. NORTON-We Have Been Friends.

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Cætera fortunæ, non mea, turba fuit.

The rest of the crowd were friends of my fortune, not of me.

OVID-Tristium. I. 5. 34.

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Prosperity makes friends and adversity tries them.

Idea found in PLAUTUS-Stich. IV. 1. 16. OVID-Ep. ex Ponto. II. 3. 23. OVID Trist. I. 9. 5. ENNIUS-Cic. Amicit. Ch. XVII. METASTASTIO Olimpiade. III. 3. HERDER-Denksprüche. CALDERON-Secret in Words. Act III. Sc. 3. MENANDER -Ex Incest. Comoed. P. 272. ARISTOTLE Ethics VIII. 4. EURIPIDES-Hecuba. L. 1226.

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For all are friends in heaven, all faithful friends;
And many friendships in the days of time
Begun, are lasting here, and growing still.
POLLOK-Course of Time. Bk. V. L. 336.

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Friends given by God in mercy and in love;
My counsellors, my comforters, and guides;
My joy in grief, my second bliss in joy;
Companions of my young desires; in doubt
My oracles; my wings in high pursuit.
Oh! I remember, and will ne'er forget
Our meeting spots, our chosen sacred hours;
Our burning words, that utter'd all the soul,
Our faces beaming with unearthly love;-
Sorrow with sorrow sighing, hope with hope
Exulting, heart embracing heart entire.

POLLOK-Course of Time. Bk. V. L. 315.

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Absent or dead, still let a friend be dear, (A sigh the absent claims, the dead a tear.) POPE-Epistle to Robert, Earl of Oxford.

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Trust not yourself; but your defects to know, Make use of ev'ry friend-and ev'ry foe.

POPE-Essay on Criticism. L. 214.

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Ah, friend! to dazzle let the vain design;

To raise the thought and touch the heart be thine.

POPE-Moral Essays. Ep. II. L. 248.

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A man that hath friends must show himself friendly; and there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother.

Proverbs. XVIII. 24.

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