Friends are rare for, the ...

Friends are rare for, the good reason that men are not common.
Friends are rare for, the good reason that men are not common.
 Philibert Joseph Roux

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The man abandoned by his friends, one after another, without just cause, will acquire, the reputation of being hard to please, changeable, ungrateful, unsociable.
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 Philibert Joseph Roux
The orator is the mouth (os) of a nation.
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