"little do men perceive what solitude is, and how far it extendeth; for a crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures, and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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Francis Bacon, Essays, XXVII "On Friendship" (1612, rewritten 1625)
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