“Friendship, 'tis said, is love without his wings,
And friendship, sir, is sweet enough for me.”

— Alfred Austin

Source: Savonarola (1881), Candida to Valori in Act I, sc. ii; p. 35.

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British writer and poet 1835–1913

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