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Henry Fielding Quotes about Friendship

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The highest friendship must always lead us to the highest pleasure.

The highest friendship must always lead us to the highest pleasure.

Henry Fielding
Friendship, Pleasure, Highest
Henry Fielding (1811). “The History of Amelia”, p.191

Distance of Time and Place do really cure what they seem to aggravate; and taking Leave of our Friends resembles taking Leave of the World, concerning which it hath been often said, that it is not Death but Dying which is terrible.

Henry Fielding
Friendship, Death, Goodbye
"Amelia Volume".

These are called the pious frauds of friendship.

Henry Fielding
Friendship, Fraud, Pious
Henry Fielding (1832). “The History of Amelia”, p.287

It is well known to all great men, that by conferring an obligation they do not always procure a friend, but are certain of creating many enemies.

Henry Fielding
Friendship, Men, Creating
Henry Fielding (1975). “The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling”, p.58, Wesleyan University Press

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