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Friendship is made fast by interwoven benefits.

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Philip Sidney
Age: 31 †
Born: 1554
Born: November 30
Died: 1586
Died: October 17
Diplomat
Military Personnel
Novelist
Poet
Politician
Kent
England
Sir Philip Sidney
Interwoven
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Friendship
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What is birth to a man if it shall be a stain to his dead ancestors to have left such an offspring?
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Truth is the ground of science, the centre wherein all things repose, and is the type of eternity.
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The truly great man is as apt to forgive as his power is able to revenge.
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High honor is not only gotten and born by pain and danger, but must be nursed by the like, else it vanisheth as soon as it appears to the world.
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