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Friendship is the perfection of love, and superior to love it is love purified, exalted, proved by experience and a consent of minds. Love, Madam, may, and love does, often stop short of friendship.

Samuel Richardson

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Samuel Richardson
Age: 73 †
Born: 1687
Born: August 19
Died: 1761
Died: July 4
Novelist
Writer
S. Richardson
Love
Friendship
Madam
Short
Exalted
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Proved
Often
Consent
Experience
Superior
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Superiors
May
Perfection
Mind
Minds
Purified

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