Social Commentaries
Of Friendship
From The Most Elegant and Witty Epigrams (1618), Book 4
Social Commentaries
NEw friends are no friends; how can that be true?
The oldest friends that are, were somtimes new.
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Codex Note
Book 4, Epigram 50
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