—La Bruyere.
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To take the companionship of life from life, what else is it than to take away the means of absent friends conversing together?
—Cicero.
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The love of friendship is the most perfect form of loving.
—Cardinal Manning.
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The highest compact we can make with our fellow is, Let there be truth between us two forevermore. It is sublime to feel and say of another, I need never meet, or speak, or write to him; we need not reinforce ourselves or send tokens of remembrance, I rely on him as on myself; if he did thus or thus I know it was right.
—Emerson.