Quote#Friendship
When foes insult, and prudent friends dispense
Quote byCharles Churchill · 1731–1764
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Night: An Epistle to Robert Lloyd (1761), line 1.
English (original)
When foes insult, and prudent friends dispense, In pity's strains, the worst of insolence, Oft with thee, Lloyd, I steal an hour from grief, And in thy social converse find relief.
— Charles Churchill
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