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“Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship—never.”

— Charles Caleb Colton, Lacon (1820), Vol. II; LXXXIII

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About Charles Caleb Colton

1780 – 1832

English cleric and writer, author of "Lacon: or, Many Things in Few Words".

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