The Bonds Between Friends Are Precious Things

a friend may speak as the case requires

A man cannot speak to his son but as a father; to his wife but as a husband; to his enemy but upon terms: whereas a friend may speak as the case requires, and not as it sorteth with the person.

~ Francis Bacon

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