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...we are unfashioned creatures, but half made up, if one wiser, better, dearer than ourselves - such a friend ought to be - do not lend his aid to perfectionate our weak and faulty natures.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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. . . the companions of our childhood always possess a certain power over our minds which hardly any later friend can obtain.
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Satan has his companions, fellow-devils, to admire and encourage him but I am solitary and detested.
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