John Churton Collins Quotes and Quotations
The world, like an accomplished hostess, pays most attention to those whom it will soonest forget. Envy and fear are the only passions to which no pleasure is attached. To accept a favor from a friend is to confer one. In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends. Envy and fear are the only passions to which no pleasure is attached. There is often less danger in the things we fear than in the things we desire.
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