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Joseph Roux1834–1905

We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence.

Joseph Roux on friendship

Meditations of a Parish Priest (1866), Part 9, LIV

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A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool.
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Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.
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Don’t walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don’t walk behind me, I may not lead. Just walk beside me and be my friend.
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In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
Martin Luther King Jr.1929–1968Martin Luther King, Jr., The Trumpet of Conscience, Steeler Lecture, November 1967.
Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, ‘What! You too? I thought I was the only one!’
C. S. Lewis1898–1963

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