When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty.
One forgives the critic - perhaps - but never the good-natured friend.
He who throws away a friend is as bad as he who throws away his life.
The more a man knows, the more he forgives.
Any misfortune that happens to another person is funny. If it happens to someone else and not me, it's very funny.
We easily forgive our friends those faults that do no affect us ourselves.
Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings.
It is bitter to lose a friend to evil, before one loses him to death.
The laughter of man is more terrible than his tears, and takes more forms hollow, heartless, mirthless, maniacal.
Laughter is not a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is the best ending for one.
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