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a man should, at the first approaches, favour their grief and express some approbation of their sorrow
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If a man should importune me to give a reason why I loved him, I find it could no otherwise be expressed, than by making answer: because it was he, because it was I.
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There is nothing to which nature seems so much to have inclined us, as to society
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We sought one another long before we met, and by the characters we heard of one another
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Whereas in friendship, 'tis a general and universal fire, but temperate and equal, a constant established heat, all gentle and smooth, without poignancy or roughness.
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A man should diffuse joy, but, as much as he can, smother grief.
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There is nothing so unsociable and sociable as man, the one by his vice, the other by his nature.
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Your heart is wounded with compassion to hear the mourning of friends, and, perhaps with anger, to hear the counterfeit condolings of pretenders.