“If you are looking for a friend who is faultless, you will be friendless.”
Rumi (1207–1273) Iranian poet
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“Officious, innocent, sincere,
Of every friendless name the friend.”
Stanza 2
Elegy on the Death of Mr. Robert Levet, A Practiser in Physic (1783)
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