Christian Nestell Bovee - False friends are like our shadow, keepin

False friends are like our shadow, 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, Christian Nestell. Intuitions and Summaries of Thought. C. A. Alvord, 1862.

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