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A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud. I am arrived at last in the presence of a man so real and equal, that I may drop even those undermost garments of dissimulation, courtesy, and second thought, which men never put off, and may deal with him with the simplicity and wholeness with which one chemical atom meets another.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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When friendships are real, they are not glass threads or frost work, but the solidest things we can know.Ralph Waldo Emerson