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Not chance of birth or place has made us friends, Being oftentimes of different tongues and nations, But the endeavor for the selfsame ends, With the same hopes, and fears, and aspirations.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Friendship, Different, Tongue
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1871). “The Poetical Works”, p.126
Not chance of birth or place has made us friends, Being oftentimes of different tongues and nations, But the endeavor for the selfsame ends, With the same hopes, and fears, and aspirations.