The Three Sorts of Friends (fragment)

Portrait of Samuel Coleridge
Samuel Coleridge 1772–1834

Though friendships differ endless in degree , The sorts , methinks, may be reduced to three. Ac quaintance many, and Con quaintance few; But for In quaintance I know only two-- The friend I've mourned with, and the maid I woo!

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