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“The man that hails you Tom or Jack, And proves, by thumping on your back, His sense of your great merit, Is such a friend that one had need Be very much his friend indeed To pardon or to bear it.”
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- Source:
- On Friendship.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- b078f1aa79fdc2cde3b3d572c21ad64e7ec1c7e18ea9be1a2b81c0f55298d67b
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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