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“Honest men esteem and value nothing so much in this world as a real friend. Such a one is as it were another self, to whom we impart our most secret thoughts, who partakes of our joy, and comforts us in our affliction; add to this, that his company is an everlasting pleasure to us.”
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- Source:
- Choice of Friends. Chap. iv.
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 311458cbe7019d5efd173eb2d8d43799992910f89877bdeb4a26919036d7c4d1
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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