A companion's words of persuasion are effective.
The information superhighway showed the average person what some nerd thinks about Star Trek.
I'll teach you to laugh at something that's funny!
And his good wife will tear her cheeks in grief, his sons are orphans and he, soaking the soil red with his own blood, he rots away himself-more birds than women flocking round his body!
A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother.
I'll get out of this city alive, even if it kills me!