Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is gon…

William Hazlitt
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Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is gone - but part, while you can part friends. Bury the carcass of friendship: it is not worth embalming. ✨ William Hazlitt (1889). William Hazlitt, Essayist and Critic: Selections from His Writings with a Memoir, Biographical and Critical
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