Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.Cicero
“A man should keep his friendships in constant repair.”
Writer and lexicographer · 1709 – 1784
Samuel Johnson was an English writer who compiled the first great Dictionary of the English Language in 1755. Poet, essayist and the most quoted conversationalist of his age, his life was immortalised in Boswell's famous biography.
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