Do you not know how bashful friendship is? Friends - comrades

C. S. Lewis
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Do you not know how bashful friendship is? Friends - comrades - do not look at each other. Friendship would be ashamed. ✨ C.S. Lewis (1996). That Hideous Strength, p.145, Simon and Schuster
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