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Letter "F" » False friend
«False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine but leaving us when we cross into the shade.»
Author: Christian Nevell Bovee
| About:
Friends
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«Better an honest enemy than a false friend»
«False friends are worst than bitter enemies.»
«An open enemy is better than a false friend»
«False friends are worse than open enemies»
«A false friend and a shadow attend only while the sun shines»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
| About:
Friendship
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«On a day of burial there is no perspective -- for space itself is annihilated. Your dead friend is still a fragmentary being. The day you bury him is a day of chores and crowds, of hands false or true to be shaken, of the immediate cares of mourning. The dead friend will not really die until tomorrow, when silence is round you again. Then he will show himself complete, as he was -- to tear himself away, as he was, from the substantial you. Only then will you cry out because of him who is leaving and whom you cannot detain.»
Author: Antoine de Saint-Exupery
(Author, Pilot, Writer)
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«If you lived in London, where the whole system is one of false good-fellowship, and you may know a man for twenty years without finding out that he hates you like poison, you would soon have your eyes opened. There we do unkind things in a kind way: we say bitter things in a sweet voice: we always give our friends chloroform when we tear them to pieces.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
chloroform, False friend, False friends, fellowship
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