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Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers Quotes

The very flexibility and ease which make men’s friendships so agreeable while they endure, make them the easier to destroy and forget.

Source:Essay 1. Virginibus Puerisque, Part I (1876), Page 5
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Robert Louis Stevenson (Virginibus Puerisque, and Other Papers Quotes)
  • Book: Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers
  • Writer: Robert Louis Stevenson
  • Genre: Essays
  • Published: 1881
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