--_Ellis_.

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There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth and
that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend
and of a flatterer. For there is no such flatterer as is a man's self;
and there is no such remedy against flattery of a man's self as the
liberty of a friend.

--_Bacon_.

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The laws of friendship are austere and eternal, of one web with the laws
of nature and of morals.

--_Emerson_.

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To he only an admirer is not to be a friend of a human being. Human
nature wants something more, and our perceptions are diseased when we
dress up a human being in the attributes of divinity. He is our friend
who loves more than admires us, and would aid us in our great work.

--_Channing_.

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