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Learning hath gained most by those books by which the printers have lost.

Learning hath gained most by those books by which the printers have lost.

Thomas Fuller (1840). “The Holy State and the Profane State”, p.162

Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.

"Meditations of a Parish Priest". Book by Joseph Roux, pt. 4, no. 28, 1886.

The consideration of change over the century is about loss, though I think that social change is gain rather than loss.

"'I'm not a historian but I can get obsessively interested in the past'". Interview with Robert McCrum, www.theguardian.com. August 25, 2001.

A good friend of my son's is a son to me.

"Ethan of Athos". Book by Lois McMaster Bujold, 1986.

Between friends, frequent reproofs make the friendship distant.

Confucius (2005). “The Ethics of Confucius”, p.128, Cosimo, Inc.

Friendship should be more than biting time can sever.

T. S. Eliot (2014). “Complete Poems and Plays, 1909-1950”, p.192, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

The loss which is unknown is no loss at all.

"The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave: From the Latin". Book by Darius Lyman. Maxim 38, 1856.

Great souls by instinct to each other turn, demand alliance, and in friendship burn.

Joseph Addison, Henry George Bohn, Richard Hurd (1856). “The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison: Poems on several occasions. Poemata. Dialogues upon the usefulness of ancient medals, especially in relation to the Latin and Greek poets. Remarks on several parts of Italy, in the years 1701, 1702, 1703”, p.45

The great effect of friendship is beneficence, yet by the first act of uncommon kindness it is endangered.

Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1837). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: With an Essay on His Life and Genius /c by Arthur Murphy, Esq”, p.108