Norman Maclean Quotes

Slowly we became silent, and silence itself if an enemy to friendship.

Norman Maclean

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• Slowly we became silent, and silence itself if an enemy to friendship.

  

  Norman Maclean
  • Enemy
  • Friendship
  • Silent