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Julius Charles Hare and Augustus William Hare: We never know the true value of friends. While they live we are too sensitive…

We never know the true value of friends. While they live we are too sensitive of their faults: when we have lost them we only see their virtues.

In today’s wordsWe never know the true value of friends. While they're alive we're too aware of their faults; once we've lost them, we only see their good qualities.

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From the book Guesses at Truth, as quoted in A Dictionary of Quotations in Prose (compiled by Anna L. Ward, 1889)

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