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“Treat your friend as if he might become an enemy.”
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- Source:
- Maxim 401.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 8da30cd1983f6ad75c81eabd3cfb360b8c086774232a23eb8200eb498dbd9d80
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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