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Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.

Oliver Goldsmith

1768

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Nature of love Nature of friendship Love Friendship

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1768 Age of Enlightenment

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Oliver Goldsmith

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Goldsmith, Oliver. The Good-Natur'd Man. Cambridge University Press, 2013, act 1.

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Goldsmith, Oliver. The Good Natur'd Man. 1768, Covent Garden Theatre, London, England, UK, act 1.

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