Samuel Laman Blanchard - Friend Quotes

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It is surely one of the strangest of our propensities to mark out those we love best for the worst usage; yet we do, all of us. We can take any freedom with a friend; we stand on no ceremony with a friend.

Samuel Laman Blanchard

It is an odd mode of diminishing one's own weakness to ask a friend to lend us the equal force of his.

Samuel Laman Blanchard

I must stop to lament, that we cannot evince an admiring gratitude towards other excellent things by a like readiness of quotation: that we cannot, for instance, quote a star that we have been watching; or a hue of sunset; or a friend's voice, and his shake of the hand (I had almost said heart); or a beautiful picture—a Claude or Titian, for example.

Samuel Laman Blanchard