Men often discover their affinity to each other by the mutual love they have for a book—just as two persons sometimes discover a friend by the admiration which both entertain for a third.
Samuel Smiles
Where these words come from
- 95% sureThese words were traced back to where they first appeared. That source is listed below.
- Character, Chapter X, “Companionship of Books”; Complete sentence on shared reading as a way of discovering friendship. Chapter opening and surrounding discussion read; Smiles’s narration, not the adjacent quotations from Hazlitt, Sidney or chapter epigraphs. Original English public-domain text.
- Character, Chapter X, “Companionship of Books”
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