“Trust no friend without faults, and love a maiden, but no angel.”

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, as quoted in Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern English and Foreign Sources (1899) by James Wood, p. 499
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British novelist, poet, playwright, librettist, biographer … 1919–2013

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