The costliness of keeping friends does not lie in what one does for them, but in what one, out of consideration for them, refrains from doing.[Det kostspielige ved at holde venner ligger jo ikke i, hvad man gør for dem, men hvad man af hensyn til dem undlader at gøre.]
Source:Letter to George Brandes (March 6, 1870); The Correspondence of Henrik Ibsen (ed. Hodder and Stoughton, 1905), Page 183
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