Quote#Friendship
To act the part of a true friend requires more conscientious feeling…
Quote bySarah Stickney Ellis · 1799–1872
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: The Pains of Pleasing, ch. 4; Pictures of Private Life, 2nd ser., 3rd ed. (London, 1835), p. 251.
English (original)
To act the part of a true friend requires more conscientious feeling than to fill with credit and complacency any other station or capacity in social life.
— Sarah Stickney Ellis
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