--_Ware_.

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The expensiveness of friendship does not lie in what one does for one's
friends, but in what, out of regard for them, one leaves undone.

--_Ibsen_.

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There are three friendships which are advantageous, and three which are
injurious. Friendship with the upright; friendship with the sincere;
and friendship with the man of observation: these are advantageous.
Friendship with the man of specious airs; friendship with the
insinuatingly soft; and friendship with the glib-tongued: these are
injurious.

--_Confucius_.

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The tree withereth
Which stands in the courtyard
Without shelter of bark or of leaf.
So is a man
Destitute of friends.
Why should he live on?