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The soil of friendship is worn out with constant use. Habit may still attach us to each other, but we feel ourselves fettered by it. Old friends might be compared to old married people without the tie of children.

William Hazlitt

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William Hazlitt
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Wm. Haslett
William Carew Hazlitt
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