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Quote by William Hazlitt
Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is

Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is gone — but part, while you can part friends. Bury the carcass of friendship: it is not worth embalming. – William Hazlitt

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There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our firends. It is little better than a piece of quackery. The truth is, we think of them as we please, that is, as they please or displease us. – William Hazlitt

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Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other peoples weaknesses. – William Hazlitt

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Anyone who has passed though the regular gradations of a classical education, and is not made a fool by it, may consider himself as having had a very narrow escape. – William Hazlitt

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One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error. – Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

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I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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Probably no man ever had a friend that he did not dislike a little. – E.W. Howe

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Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another people are friends in spots. – George Santayana

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