Charles Caleb Colton

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• Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship⁠—never.

  Lacon (1820), Volume 2, Vol. II; LXXXIII

  • Friendship

• We hate some persons because we do not know them; and we will not know them because we hate them.

  Lacon (1820), Volume 1, Vol. I; CIII

  • Friendship

• If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.

  Lacon (1820), Volume 2, Vol. II; LXXXIX

  • Love
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