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A sudden thought strikes me,—let us swear an eternal friendship.
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The Rovers, Act i, Sc. 1, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). Compare: "Let us embrace, and from this very moment vow an eternal misery together", Thomas Otway, The Orphan, Act iv., Sc. 2.; "My fair one, let us swear an eternal friendship", Jean Baptiste Moli?re, Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme (published c. 1871), act iv. sc. 1.

 

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