Henry Adams: One friend in a life time is much; two are many; three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of li

One friend in a life time is much; two are many; three are hardly possible. Frie — 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.

Henry Adams

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