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But just as delicate fare does not stop you from craving for saveloys, so tried and exquisite friendship does not take away your taste for something new and dubious.

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In their friendship they were like two of a litter that can never play together without leaving traces of tooth and claw, wounding each other in the most sensitive places.

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Friendship, which is of its nature a delicate thing, fastidious, slow of growth, is easily checked, will hesitate, demur, recoil where love, good old blustering love, bowls ahead and blunders through every obstacle.

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It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship.

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It is prudent to pour the oil of delicate politeness upon the machinery of friendship.

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Born: January 28, 1873
Died: August 3, 1954 (aged 81)
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