Arthur Helps: Man

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“Friendship is often outgrown; and his former child’s clothes will no more fit a man than some of his former friendships.”

‘Unreasonable Claims in Social Affections and Relations’, Chapter IX.
Friends in Council (First Series), (1847),

“No man ever praised two persons equally – and pleased them both.”

Source: Thoughts in the Cloister and the Crowd. 1901, p.25.

“The envious man desires some good which another possesses; the jealous man would often be content to be without the good so that that other did not possess it.”

Source: Brevia: Short Essays and Aphorisms. (1871), p.31.