Friendship is usually treated...as a tough...thing which will survive all manner of bad treatment. But this is an exceedingly great and foolish error; it may die in an hour of a single unwise word.
OuidaCould we see when and where we are to meet again, we would be more tender when we bid our friends goodbye.
OuidaA just chastisement may benefit a man, though it seldom does; but an unjust one changes all his blood to gall.
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