There was not blood and guts enough about it to attract the primitivists. …it had not tearful smiles and keepsakes and baby-talk enough to please the sentimentalists. …all that had once commended this love now began to work against it. Friendship is…the least natural of loves the least instinctive, organic, biological, gregarious and necessary…The pack or herd…may even dislike and distrust it. And the possibility of going through life without the experience is rooted in that fact which separates Friendship so sharply from both the other loves. The first and most obvious answer is that few value it because few experience it. The modern world, in comparison, ignores it. To the Ancients, Friendship seemed the happiest and most fully human of all loves the crown of life and the school of virtue. …very few modern people think Friendship a love of comparable value or even a love at all.
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