One friend in a life-time is much; two are many; three are hardly possible. Friendship… — Henry Adams

One friend in a life-time is much; two are many; three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

The Education of Henry Adams · 1907
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Adams, Henry. "The Education of Henry Adams." Henry Adams: Democracy, Esther, Mont Saint Michel and Chartres, The Education of Henry Adams, edited by Ernest Samuels and Jayne Samuels. Library of America, 1983, ch. 20.
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Adams, Henry. The Education of Henry Adams. 1907, ch. 20.

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