“Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) English poet, literary critic and philosopher
“You can date the evolving life of a mind, like the age of a tree, by the rings of friendship formed by the expanding central trunk. In the course of my history, not love or marriage so much as friendship has promoted growth.”
Source: How I Grew (1987), Ch. 1
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