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Quote by William Hazlitt
Few things tend more to alienate friendship than a want of punctua

Few things tend more to alienate friendship than a want of punctuality in our engagements. I have known the breach of a promise to dine or sup to break up more than one intimacy. – William Hazlitt

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I hate to be near the sea, and to hear it roaring and raging like a wild beast in its den. It puts me in mind of the everlasting efforts of the human mind, struggling to be free, and ending just where it began. – William Hazlitt

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We grow tired of everything but turning others into ridicule, and congratulating ourselves on their defects. – William Hazlitt

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They took their meals together and it was remarked on such occasions, when the friendship of animals is put to a hard test, that they never quarrelled or disputed the possession of a favourite fruit with each other. – Henry Walter Bates

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It is a good thing to be rich, and it is a good thing to be strong, but it is a better thing to be loved of many friends. – Euripides

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It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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