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Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. Quotes about Friendship

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Don't flatter yourselves that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. On the contrary, the nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.

Don't flatter yourselves that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. On the contrary, the nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
Friendship, Relationship, Courtesy
Oliver Wendell Holmes (2007). “Autocrat Of The Breakfast Table”, p.51, Reprint Services Corporation

Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
Friendship, Real Friends, Dating
Oliver Wendell Holmes (1904). “The professor at the breakfast-table”

Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
Friendship, Best Friend, Sweet
'An After-Dinner Poem'

But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
Friendship, Sweet, Real Friends
Oliver Wendell Holmes (2007). “Poems 2”, p.147, Reprint Services Corporation

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