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“I understand by this passion the union of desire, friendship, and tenderness, which is inflamed by a single female, which prefers her to the rest of her sex, and which seeks her possession as the supreme or the sole happiness of our being.”

Happiness Desire Passion Sex Friendship Female Unions Possession Supreme Sole Tenderness Infatuation

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Edward Gibbon (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Edward Gibbon (Illustrated)

“Female friendships are of rapid growth.”

Growth Friendship Female Rapids Female Friendship Rapid Growth

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)

“What I expect from my male friends is that they are polite and clean. What I expect from my female friends is unconditional love, the ability to finish my sentences for me when I am sobbing, a complete and total willingness to pour their hearts out to me, and the ability to tell me why the meat thermometer isn't supposed to touch the bone.”

Heart Women Friendship Ability Female Clean Males Bones Sentences Meat Unconditional Love Willingness Polite Unconditional Sobbing Thermometers Female Friends

Book:Living Out Loud

Source: Living Out Loud

“Sometimes, with luck, we find the kind of true friend, male or female, that appears only two or three times in a lucky lifetime, one that will winter us and summer us, grieve, rejoice, and travel with us.”

Kind Two Sometimes Three Friendship Lucky Summer Female Luck Lifetime Males Winter Grieving Rejoice Three Times True Friend

Book:One's Company: Reflections on Living Alone

Source: One's Company: Reflections on Living Alone

“He endearing elegance of female friendship.”

Friendship Friends Female Elegance Endearing Female Friendship

Book:The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works

Source: The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works

“What vexes me most is, that my female friends, who could bear me very well a dozen years ago, have now forsaken me, although I am not so old in proportion to them as I formerly was: which I can prove by arithmetic, for then I was double their age, which now I am not. Letter to Alexander Pope. 7 Feb. 1736.”

Years Wells I Can Age Friendship Bears Prove Female Years Ago Letters Proportion Dozen Pope Arithmetic Forsaken Vex Female Friends

Book:The Works of Jonathan Swift ...: Containing Interesting and Valuable Papers, Not Hitherto Published ... With Memoir of the Author

Source: The Works of Jonathan Swift ...: Containing Interesting and Valuable Papers, Not Hitherto Published ... With Memoir of the Author