"The best time to frame an answer to the letters of a friend, is the moment you receive them. Then the warmth of friendship, and the intelligence received, most forcibly cooperate."
― William Shenstone
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Friendship
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- "Zealous men are ever displaying to you the strength of their belief, while judicious men are showing you the grounds of it."
- "The proper means of increasing the love we bear our native country is to reside some time in a foreign one."