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Socrates Quotes: Get not your friends by bare compliments, but by giving them sensible tokens of your love.
         

Get not your friends by bare compliments, but by giving them sensible tokens of your love.


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Get not your friends by bare compliments, but by giving them sensible tokens of your love.
         



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