George Santayana :
Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things and in that sense it is more ideal and less subject to trouble than marriage is.
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Friends and Friendship
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Marriage
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Ideals and Idealism
Gift it
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