"Though friendships differ endless in degree, The sorts, methinks, may be reduced to three. Acquaintance many, and Conquaintance few, But for Inquaintance I know only two β The friend I've wept and the maid I woo."
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "The Three Sorts of Friends", in Frazer's Magazine (January 1835)
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