“Pocas amistades quedarían en este mundo si uno supiera lo que su amigo dice de él en ausencia suya, aún cuando sus palabras fueran sinceras y desapasionadas.”
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Original: «Olds friends are the greats blessings of one's latter years. Half a word eonveys one's meaning. They have memory of the same events, and have the same mode of thinking. I have young relations that may grow upon me, for my nature is affectionate, but can they grow old friends? My age forbids that. Still less can they grow companions. Is it a friendship to explain half one says? One must relate the history of one's memory and ideas; and what is that to the young but old stories?»
Fuente: Treasury of Thought: Forming an Encyclopædia of Quotations from Ancient and Modern Authors. Autor y compilador Maturin Murray Ballou. Editorial J. R. Osgood and Company, 1872. Página 190. https://books.google.es/books?id=09M4AQAAIAAJ&pg=PA214&dq=The+gratitude+of+place-expectants+is+a+lively+sense+of+future+favors.+Robert+Walpole&hl=es&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjt29CclNLfAhVUBGMBHfbnAxYQ6AEIKjAA#v=onepage&q=Walpole&f=false
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