"One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a r...

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A friend in power is a friend lost.

More Henry Adams quotes
"Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the world.
"Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life a community of thought a rivalry of aim.
"Accident counts for much in companionship as in marriage.
"A new friend is always a miracle...One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism o...
"A new friend is always a miracle, but at thirty-three years old, such a bird of paradise rising in the sage-brush was an avatar. One friend in a lifet...