I desire the company of a man who could sympathize with me, ... - Desiderius Erasmus

"I desire the company of a man who could sympathize with me, whose eyes would signal to mine that we both appreciated the current scene."

Desiderius Erasmus Friendship

Humanist Scholar Theologian Dutch 1466–1536

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