“92. A Father is a Treasure, a Brother a Comfort; but a Friend is both.”

— Thomas Fuller (writer)

Compare Poor Richard's Almanack (1747) : A Father's a Treasure; a Brother's a Comfort; a Friend is both.
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)

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British physician, preacher, and intellectual 1654–1734

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