"You may depend upon it that he is a good man whose intimate friends are all good, and whose enemies are decidedly bad."

Johann Kaspar Lavater, German Theologian

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"You may depend upon it that he is a good man whose intimate friends are all good, and whose enemies are decidedly bad."

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