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All friendship is desirable in itself, though it starts from the need of help

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Haec ego non multis (scribo), sed tibi: satis enim magnum alter alteri theatrum sumus. I am writing this not to many, but to you: certainly we are a great enough audience for each other.
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Where I am death is not, where death is I am not.
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