Quote#Friendship
2915. Suffer a Friend to reprove thee, and thank him heartily for it…
Quote byThomas Fuller · 1654–1734
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727).
English (original)
2915. Suffer a Friend to reprove thee, and thank him heartily for it : 'Tis a Happiness for a Man that he can be reproved when he does amiss, and be recalled when he runs wrong. Princes are deprived of that Benefit : for they converse familiarly but with very few Persons, and those make it their only Business to humour them.
— Thomas Fuller
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