Now the people who have no scruples as to the requests they make to their friends, thereby allow that they are ready to have no scruples as to what they will do for their friends; and it is the recriminations of such people which commonly not only quench friendships, but give rise to lasting enmities.
This passage from a philosophical work on friendship explains how individuals who make unscrupulous demands often destroy friendships and create lasting animosities.
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