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The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
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“The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.”

Henry David Thoreau

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A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
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1849
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Thoreau argues that close friendship communicates through shared understanding that can run deeper than explicit statements, explanations, or ordinary conversational exchange.

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A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, Wednesday; the friendship meditation contrasts true mutual understanding with the limits of conventional conversation.

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