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“Friendship is only a reciprocal conciliation of interests, and an exchange of good offices; it is a species of commerce out of which self-love always expects to gain something.”
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- Source:
- Maxim 83.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 8d5736ae91ce32a39c2964e49ba13b3a0024942bac9c6dc3327400e3494a8214
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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