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“Our friends are often secretly made happy, or less unhappy, by their finding out about our problems, because that reminds them that they are not the only ones who have problems; that some people’s problems are way bigger than theirs; or that some people, unlike them, have real problems.”

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Book:On Friendship: A Satirical Essay
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