A companion loves some agreeable qualities which a man may possess, but a friend loves the man himself.
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It is not every man who can be exquisitely miserable, any more than exquisitely happy.
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That favorite subject, Myself.
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I am, I flatter myself, completely a citizen of the world. In my travels through Holland, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Corsica, France, I never felt myself from home.
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I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am.
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