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Good God! how often are we to die before we go quite off this stage? In every friend we lose a part of ourselves, and the best part.

Alexander Pope
Friendship, Death, Losing Friends
Letter to Jonathan Swift, 5 December 1732, in George Sherburn (ed.) 'The Correspondence of Alexander Pope' (1956) vol. 3, p. 335
Good God! how often are we to die before we go quite off this stage? In every friend we lose a part of ourselves, and the best part.