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Everyone calls himself a friend, but only a fool relies on it; nothing is commoner than the name, nothing rarer than the thing.

Jean de La Fontaine
Names, Fool, Commoners
"The Wordsworth Book of Humorous Quotations". Book by C. Robertson, 1998.
Everyone calls himself a friend, but only a fool relies on it; nothing is commoner than the name, nothing rarer than the thing.