“Better make a weak man your enemy than your friend.”
Josh Billings (1818–1885) American humorist
Affurisms. From Josh Billings: His Sayings (1865)
“A blow from your friend is better than a kiss from your enemy.”
As quoted in Geary's Guide to the World's Great Aphorists (2007) by James Geary, p. 118
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“with your name on my mouth
and a kiss that never
broke away from yours.”
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