We often choose a friend as we do a mistress - for no particular excellence in themselves, but merely from some circumstance that flatters our self-love.


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

William Hazlitt Quotes

We often choose a friend as we do a mistress - for no particular excellence in themselves, but merely from some circumstance that flatters our...

We often choose a friend as we do a mistress - for no particular excellence in themselves, but merely from some circumstance that flatters our...

We often choose a friend as we do a mistress - for no particular excellence in themselves, but merely from some circumstance that flatters our...

We often choose a friend as we do a mistress - for no particular excellence in themselves, but merely from some circumstance that flatters our...