“The friendships of the world are oft
Confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasure;
Ours has severest virtue for its basis,
And such a friendship ends not but with life.”

—  Joseph Addison, book Cato

Act III, scene i.
Cato, A Tragedy (1713)

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