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“Yet, hermit and stoic as he was, he was really fond of sympathy, and threw himself heartily and childlike into the company of young people whom he loved, and whom he delighted to entertain, as he only could, with the varied and endless anecdotes of his experiences by field and river: and he was always ready to lead a huckleberry-party or a search for chestnuts and grapes.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“Our friends are generally ready to do everything for us, except the very thing we wish them to do.”
—William Hazlitt (1778–1830)

“We are all very ready to believe what we like.”
—Samuel Richardson (1689–1761)