“Friendship is like a glass ornament, once it is broken it can rarely be put back together exactly the same way.”
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Charles Kingsley 50
English clergyman, historian and novelist 1819–1875Related quotes

“Things that came apart could be put together again, but never exactly the same.”
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NME (New Musical Express), November 2005
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“Fortune is like glass—the brighter the glitter, the more easily broken.”
Fortuna vitrea est: tum cum splendet frangitur.
Maxim 280
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Source: Esther: A Novel (1884), Ch. IX