Mikhail Lermontov - Friends Quotes

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The history of a man's soul, even the pettiest soul, is hardly less interesting and useful than the history of a whole people; especially when the former is the result of the observations of a mature mind upon itself, and has been written without any egotistical desire of arousing sympathy or astonishment. Rousseau's Confessions has precisely this defect – he read it to his friends.

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Of two close friends, one is always the slave of the other.

Mikhail Lermontov

Of two friends, one is always the slave of the other, although frequently neither acknowledges the fact to himself.

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