Relationships
The Three Sorts of Friends
From Complete Poetical Works, ed. E. H. Coleridge (1912)
Relationships
Though friendships differ endless in degree,
The sorts, methinks, may be reduced to three.
Acquaintance many, and Conquaintance few;
But for Inquaintance I know only two--
The friend I've mourned with, and the maid I woo!
S. T. COLERIDGE.
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Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. “The Three Sorts of Friends.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/coleridge/493/.
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