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Friendship cannot live with ceremony, nor without civility.
 E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax

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Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts.
 E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax
Formality is sufficiently revenged upon the world for being so unreasonably laughed at; it is destroyed, it is true, but it hath the spiteful satisfaction of seeing everything destroyed with it.
 E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax
Power is so apt to be insolent and Liberty to be saucy, that they are seldom upon good Terms.
 E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax