The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.
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It is very wonderful to see persons of the best sense passing hours together in shuffling and dividing a pack of cards with no conversation but what is made up of a few game-phrases, and no other ideas but those of black or red spots arranged together in different figures. Would not a man laugh to hear any one of his species complaining that life is short.
Joseph Addison
Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both.
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