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Henry Home, Lord Kames on Saint Patrick's Day

1696–1782 Scotland

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The difficulty is not so much to die for a friend, as to find a friend worth dying for.

Custom is the great leveller. It corrects the inequality of fortune by lessening equally the pleasures of the prince and the pains of the peasant.

Treasury of Thought (1881)

As nice as we are in love, we forgive more faults in that than in friendship. Expostulations betwixt friends end generally ill, but well betwixt lovers.

Treasury of Thought (1881)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Henry Home, Lord Kames (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.