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Edward Young 110
English poet 1683–1765Related quotes

“Never make excuses. Your friends don't need them and your foes won't believe them.”
Source: Wooden: A Lifetime of Observations and Reflections On and Off the Court
“A true friend is a gift from God. Since God doesn't exist, guess what? Neither do true friends.”
Source: You Are Worthless: Depressing Nuggets of Wisdom Sure to Ruin Your Day
Book VI, lines 183–189; Odysseus to Nausicaa.
Translations, Odyssey (2000)

“True friends never apart maybe in distance but never in heart”

“You are worse than twenty foes, you poisonous friend!”
Isabella Linton to Catherine Earnshaw (Ch. X).
Wuthering Heights (1847)

“An open foe I much prefer
To a dear friend that scratches.”
Volume I., 5. — "Le Chien et le Chat".
Translation reported in Harbottle's Dictionary of quotations French and Italian (1904), p. 74.
Fables (1802)

“Silence is a true friend who never betrays.”