Theme

Friendship

The chosen loyalty that is neither romance nor family, though it can outlast both. A short shelf, because few writers have been precise about it.

1. Thomas Jefferson survives.John AdamsReported last words
2. Is it not delightful to have friends coming from distant quarters?ConfuciusAnalects
3. Never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.John DonneDevotions upon Emergent Occasions
4. What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?George EliotMiddlemarch

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