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S.T. 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!

 

 

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Fragment 10:

The Three Sorts of Friends, The complete poetical works of S. T. Coleridge, ed. Ernest Hartley Coleridge, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1912.