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Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings. - Jean de la Bruyere

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Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings.

Jean de la Bruyere

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Author Profession: Philosopher

Nationality: French

Born: 1645

Died: 1696

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Related Authors

Albert Camus, Blaise Pascal, Jean-Paul Sartre, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Montesquieu, Michel de Montaigne, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Simone Weil

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Cannot, Each, Failings, Forgive, Friends, Little, Long, Other, Persons, Two

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