• Friendship is made up of esteem and pleasure; pity is composed of sorrow and contempt: the mind may for some time fluctuate between them, but it can never entertain both at once.

    Oliver Goldsmith: Friendship is made up of esteem and pleasure; pity is composed of sorrow and contempt: the mind may for some time fluctuate between them, but it can never entertain both at once.
    Oliver Goldsmith (1868). “The vicar of Wakefield, poems, and essays”, p.258