Quote#Friendship
We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in…
Quote byJames Boswell · 1740–1795
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. (1791), (19 September 1777).
English (original)
We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over; so in a series of kindnesses there is at last one which makes the heart run over.
— James Boswell
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