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No friendship is so cordial or so delicious as that of girl for girl; no hatred so intense and immovable as that of woman for woman.

No friendship is so cordial or so delicious as that of girl for girl; no hatred so intense and immovable as that of woman for woman.

Walter Savage Landor
Friendship, Girl, Hatred
Walter Savage Landor (1853). “Imaginary Conversations of Greeks and Romans”, p.231

Let me take up your metaphor. Friendship is a vase, which, when it is flawed by heat or violence or accident, may as well be broken at once; it can never be trusted after. The more graceful and ornamental it was, the more clearly do we discern the hopelessness of restoring it to its former state. Coarse stones, if they are fractured, may be cemented again; precious stones, never.

Walter Savage Landor
Friendship, Precious Stones, Broken
Walter Savage Landor (1853). “The Works of Walter Savage Landor”, p.4

Virtue is presupposed in friendship.

Walter Savage Landor
Friendship, Virtue
Walter Savage Landor (1853). “Imaginary conversations of Greeks and Romans”, p.435

Friendships are the purer and the more ardent, the nearer they come to the presence of God, the Sun not only of righteousness but of love.

Walter Savage Landor
Friendship, Sun, Righteousness
Walter Savage Landor (1868). “Indexes. Table of first lines. Imaginary conversations”, p.4

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