While friendship itself has an air of eternity about it, seeming to transcend all natural limits, there is … - Robert Hugh Benson

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I don't hear any of the popular stuff unless it's good 'cause I pay no attention to popular culture, at all.

Robert Hugh Benson

While friendship itself has an air of eternity about it, seeming to transcend all natural limits, there is hardly any emotion so utterly at the mercy of time. We form friendships, and grow out of them. It might almost be said that we cannot retain the faculty of friendship unless we are continually making new friends.

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