=Friendship.=

I count myself in nothing else so happy,
As in a soul rememb'ring my good friends.
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SHAKS.: _Richard II.,_ Act ii., Sc. 3.

The friends thou hast, and their adoption tried,
Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel;
But do not dull thy palm with entertainment
Of each new-hatch'd unfledged comrade.
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SHAKS.: _Hamlet,_ Act i., Sc. 3.

Oh, be my friend, and teach me to be thine!
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EMERSON: _Forbearance._

The friendships of the world are oft
Confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasure.
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ADDISON: _Cato,_ Act iii., Sc. 1.

Two friends, two bodies with one soul inspir'd.
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POPE: _Iliad,_ Bk. xvi., Line 267.

Officious, innocent, sincere,