These friends, like astronomical distances, are only to be spoken of...

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‘These friends, like astronomical distances, are only to be spoken of in the very largest figures.‘ is a quotation from Our Mutual Friend (Book 3, Chapter 17).

Our Mutual Friend was Charles Dickens‘s fourteenth and last completed novel, published between 1864 and 1865.

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