Against War (Dulce bellum inexpertis; Tudor translation of 1533-4, ed. J. W. Mackail, 1907)
The book opens with
The fellowship of learning binds people together more closely than marriage ties or kinship
Their wordsFor I dare boldly say, that neither affinity nor yet kindred doth bind the minds of men together with straiter and surer bands of amity, than doth the fellowship of them that be learned in good letters and honest studies.
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