"Friends, though absent, are still present...." - Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero
Friends, though absent, are still present.
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“It is equally impossible to forget our Friends, and to make them answer to our ideal. When they say farewell, then indeed we beginto keep them company. How often we find ourselves turning our backs on our actual Friends, that we may go and meet their ideal cousins.”
“The friendship I have conceived will not be impaired by absence; but it may be no unpleasing circumstance to brighten the chain by a renewal of the covenant.”
“How often we find ourselves turning our backs on our actual friends, that we might go and meet their ideal cousins.”
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