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If it were not for the company of fools, a witty man would often be greatly at a loss. – Francois de la Rochefoucauld

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A rich rogue nowadays is fit company for any gentleman; and the world, my dear, hath not such a contempt for roguery as you imagine. – John Gay

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There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect. – Robert Louis Stevenson

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Man loves company, even if it is only that of a smoldering candle. – G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenberg

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For my own part, I would rather be in company with a dead man than with an absent one; for if the dead man gives me no pleasure, at least he shows me no contempt; whereas the absent one, silently indeed, but very plainly, tells me that he does not think me worth his attention. – Lord Chesterfield

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