• The man that hails you Tom or Jack, and proves by thumps upon your back how he esteems your merit, is such a friend, that one had need be very much his friend indeed to pardon or to bear it.

  William Cowper
  English poet 1731-1800
  

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Subjects in these quotes:

1. esteems
2. thumps
3. friend
4. indeed
5. pardon

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The man that hails you Tom or Jack, and proves by thumps upon your back how he esteems your merit, is such a friend, that one had need be very much his friend indeed to pardon or to bear it. by : William Cowper

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