The Man That Hails You Tom Or Jack, And Proves, By Thumping On Your Back, His Sense Of Your Great Merit, Is Such A Friend That One Had Need Be Very Much His Friend Indeed To Pardon Or To Bear It.

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The man that hails you Tom or Jack,
And proves, by thumping on your back,
His sense of your great merit,
Is such a friend that one had need
Be very much his friend indeed
To pardon or to bear it.
-- William Cowper (1731-1800)
-- On Friendship

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