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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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a man should, at the first approaches, favour their grief and express some approbation of their sorrow
There is nothing to which nature seems so much to have inclined us, as to society
We sought one another long before we met, and by the characters we heard of one another
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.
There is nothing so unsociable and sociable as man, the one by his vice, the other by his nature.
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