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A friend should bear a friend's infirmities.
A friend should bear a friend's infirmities.
A brute without a single redeeming point.
A brute without a single redeeming point.
When you will, they wont, when you wont, they will.
When you will, they wont, when you wont, they will.
Men speake of the faire, as things went with them there.
Men speake of the faire, as things went with them there.
He that spareth his rod hateth his son: but he that loveth him
chasteneth him betimes.
He that spareth his rod hateth his son: but he that loveth him
chasteneth him betimes.
A little more than kin, and less than kind!
A little more than kin, and less than kind!
Take away her rewards, and who will ever clasp naked Virtue to
his bosom?
Take away her rewards, and who will ever clasp naked Virtue to
his bosom?
Every man makes a god of his own desire.
Every man makes a god of his own desire.
The man that hails you Tom or Jack,
And proves by thumps upon your back
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The man that hails you Tom or Jack,
And proves by thumps upon your back
How he esteems your merit,
Is such a friend, that one had need
Be very much his friend indeed
To pardon or to bear it.