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For a crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.

Francis Bacon
Love, Loneliness, Real Friends
'Essays' (1625) 'Of Friendship'
For a crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.