We do not like our friends the worse because they sometimes give us an opportunity to rail at them heartily. Their faults reconcile us to their virtues.


Characteristics: in the manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims [by W. Hazlitt]. (ed. 1837)

William Hazlitt Quotes

We do not like our friends the worse because they sometimes give us an opportunity to rail at them heartily. Their faults reconcile us to their...

We do not like our friends the worse because they sometimes give us an opportunity to rail at them heartily. Their faults reconcile us to their...

We do not like our friends the worse because they sometimes give us an opportunity to rail at them heartily. Their faults reconcile us to their...

We do not like our friends the worse because they sometimes give us an opportunity to rail at them heartily. Their faults reconcile us to their...