Is it not delightful to have friends coming from distant quarters?
In plain words
Few things are nicer than a friend travelling a long way to see you.
Where these words come from
- 92% sureThese words were traced back to where they first appeared. That source is listed below.
- Analects, Book I, Chapter 1.2, tr. James Legge, The Chinese Classics Vol. 1 (1861/1893), public domain — the second line of the Analects' famous opening. Fetched and confirmed wording.
- The Analects, Book I
- c. 500 BCE · China
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