“A new friend is always a miracle, but at thirty-three years old, such a bird of paradise rising in the sage-brush was an avatar. One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible.”

—  Henry Adams, book The Education of Henry Adams

Source: The Education of Henry Adams

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