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Fair weather friends are not worth much.
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“Fair weather friends are not worth much.”

Aesop

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Aesop’s Fables — The Swallow and the Crow
Date
Townsend translation
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George Fyler Townsend — Translator · from Ancient Greek / Aesopic tradition
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Meaning of “Fair weather friends are not worth much.”

Friendship that exists only while circumstances are easy has little value when loyalty is actually tested by difficulty.

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Moral printed after “The Swallow and the Crow” in the Townsend translation of the fables.

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