Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have…

Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family-but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything.

Willa Cather

Shadows on the Rock · 1931

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Value of friendship Friendship Friends Loneliness Exile

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1931

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Willa Cather

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Cather, Willa. Shadows on the Rock. Alfred A. Knopf, 1931, bk. 3, ch. 5.

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