A man is known by the company he keeps
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A man is known by the company he keeps, and what stellar company Stephen Sondheim will be keeping at “Take Me to the World: A Sondheim 90th Birthday Celebration.”
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 25, 2020
A man is known by the company he keeps, because that company forms him; he gets from it what becomes brain of his brain and soul of his soul.
From A Librarian's Open Shelf by Bostwick, Arthur E.
"A man is known by the company he keeps," has long since passed into a proverb; so well does it accord with universal experience.
From The Young Man's Guide by Alcott, William A. (William Andrus)
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