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[jasonlulu_2000]

Men often discover their affinity to each other by the love they have each for a book --- just as two persons sometimes discover a friend by the admiration which both have for a third.

What does the underlined sentence mean? Why does "which" refer to?

[pugachevV]

Sometimes two people become friends because they both admire the same person.

For example: Bill and John became friends because they both admired President Clinton.