#old friend

The unrecorded past is none other than our old friend, the tree in the primeval forest which fell without being heard. ↗

— Barbara Tuchman

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Breaking with old friends is one of the most painful of the changes in all that piling up of a multitude of small distasteful changes that constitutes growing older. ↗

— John Dos Passos

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