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I would prefer as friend a good man ignorant than one more clever who is evil too.

Euripides (2013). “Euripides III: Heracles, The Trojan Women, Iphigenia among the Taurians, Ion”, p.249, University of Chicago Press

Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love.

Elie Wiesel (2011). “From the Kingdom of Memory: Reminiscences”, p.57, Schocken

Constant use had not worn ragged the fabric of their friendship.

Dorothy Parker (2002). “Complete Stories”, p.259, Penguin

Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.

Aristotle (2013). “The Essential Aristotle”, p.603, Simon and Schuster

Hunger knows no friend but its feeder.

Aristophanes, Douglass Parker (1962). “The wasps: Translated by Douglass Parker”

I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends... that if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.

Campaign remark, Fresno, Cal., 10 Sept. 1952. John F. Parker, in "If Elected, I Promise ...": Stories and Gems of Wisdom by and About Politicians (1969), attributes the reverse statement to Chauncey Depew (1834 - 1928): "If you will refrain from telling any lies about the Republican party, I'll promise not to tell the truth about the Democrats."