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John Bartlett (1820–1905).  Familiar Quotations, 10th ed.  1919.
 
 
NUMBER:1990
AUTHOR:Francis Bacon (1561–1626)
QUOTATION:Cosmus, Duke of Florence, was wont to say of perfidious friends, that “We read that we ought to forgive our enemies; but we do not read that we ought to forgive our friends.”
ATTRIBUTION:Apothegms. No. 206.
BIOGRAPHY:Columbia Encyclopedia.
 

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