--_Taylor_.

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Friendship is made up of esteem and pleasure; pity is composed of sorrow
and contempt: the mind may for some time fluctuate between them, but it
can never entertain both at once.

--_Goldsmith_.

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Friends are much better tried in bad fortune than in good fortune.

--_Aristotle_.

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Fellowship of souls does not consist in the proximity of persons. There
are millions who live in close personal contact--dwell under the same
roof, board at the same table, and work in the same shop--between whose
minds there is scarcely a point of contact, whose souls are as far
asunder as the poles; whilst, contrariwise, there are those separated by
oceans and continents, ay, by the mysterious gulf that divides time from
eternity, between whom there is a constant intercourse, a delightful
fellowship. In truth, we have often more communion with the distant than
the near.

--_Dr. Thomas_.