Quote#Friendship
I must stop to lament, that we cannot evince an admiring gratitude…
Quote bySamuel Laman Blanchard · 1804–1845
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Sketches from Life (1846), "Quotations".
English (original)
I must stop to lament, that we cannot evince an admiring gratitude towards other excellent things by a like readiness of quotation: that we cannot, for instance, quote a star that we have been watching; or a hue of sunset; or a friend's voice, and his shake of the hand (I had almost said heart); or a beautiful picture—a Claude or Titian, for example.
— Samuel Laman Blanchard
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