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The mark of Friendship is not that help will be given when the pinch comes (of course it will) but that, having been given, it makes no difference at all. ✨ C. S. Lewis (1971). The Four Loves, p.82, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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The mark of Friendship is not that help will be given when the pinch comes (of course it will) but that, having been given, it makes no difference at all. ✨ C. S. Lewis (1971). The Four Loves, p.82, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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