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Quote by Oliver Goldsmith
Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.

Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other. – Oliver Goldsmith

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Romance and novel paint beauty in colors more charming than nature, and describe a happiness that humans never taste. How deceptive and destructive are those pictures of consummate bliss! – Oliver Goldsmith

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True friends stab you in the front. – Oscar Wilde

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False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports. – Richard Burton

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I don’t need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better. – Plutarch

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Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare – and precious as a pearl. – Tahar Ben Jelloun

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