The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one.
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Ralph Waldo EmersonEssay 'Friendship', Essays: First Series (1841)
About Ralph Waldo Emerson
American essayist and poet who led the Transcendentalist movement. (1803-1882)
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