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Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to appellation.

—George Washington

Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.

—William Shakespeare

Listen to many, speak to a few.

—William Shakespeare

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few.

—George Washington

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.

—George Washington

Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony of few; and number not voices, but weigh them.

—Immanuel Kant

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to appellation.

—George Washington

Few men speak humbly of humility, chastely of chastity, skeptically of skepticism.

—Blaise Pascal