Friendship, compounded of esteem and love, derives from one its tender…

Samuel Johnson
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Friendship, compounded of esteem and love, derives from one its tenderness and its permanence from the other. ✨ Samuel Johnson (1848). The Wisdom of the Rambler, Adventurer, and Idler, p.194
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Friendship, compounded of esteem and love, derives from one its tenderness and its permanence from the other. ✨ Samuel Johnson (1848). The Wisdom of the Rambler, Adventurer, and Idler, p.194

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