Friendship is seldom lasting but between equals, or where the superior…

Samuel Johnson
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Friendship is seldom lasting but between equals, or where the superiority on one side is reduced by some equivalent advantage on the other. ✨ Samuel Johnson (1761). The Rambler: In Four Volumes, p.59
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