Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved.
Source: Interesting Anecdotes, Memoirs, Allegories, Essays, and Poetical Fragments, Of Friendship, 1794.
-- Joseph Addison, (May 1 1672-1719), English poet, essayist, playwright; He was a regular contributor to The Tatler (1709-11).