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To disappoint a friend is unpleasing; and he that forms expectations like yours, must be disappointed.
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To disappoint a friend is unpleasing; and he that forms expectations like yours, must be disappointed.
Friends are often chosen for similitude of manners, and therefore each palliates the other's failings, because they are his own.
There is certainly no greater happiness than to be able to look back on a life usefully and virtuously employed, to trace our own progress in existence, by such tokens as excite neither shame nor sorrow.
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