Friendship is the golden thread that ties the heart of all the world.
—John Evelyn
Topics: Friendship
Living in an age of extraordinary events and revolutions, I have learned, from thence this truth, which I desire might be communicated to posterity: that all is vanity which is not honest, and that there is no solid wisdom but in real piety.
—John Evelyn
Topics: Wisdom
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