Don't believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themselves. (Albert Camus)

Don't believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themselves.

Albert Camus

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