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False friends are like our shadows, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.
False friends are like our shadows, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.
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- Bovee (identity unresolved)
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- Life and Literature (copyright 1910) (1910 AD)
Number 674 · printed citation: Bovee
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