"We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship……" — James Boswell
"We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over. So in a series of kindness there is, at last, one which makes the heart run over."
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56 Quotes by James Boswell
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