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Quotation from Essays: First Series (Self-Reliance and Other Essays) by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson (spoken by Emerson)

Essays: First Series (Self-Reliance and Other Essays), VI. Friendship (Project Gutenberg #2944)

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Emerson names truth as the first element of friendship.

Citation: "A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud." — Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays: First Series (Self-Reliance and Other Essays), VI. Friendship (Project Gutenberg #2944). (id emerson-essays-q7)

Virtues: Friendship

Portrait: Ralph Waldo Emerson by Josiah Johnson Hawes 1857, Josiah Johnson Hawes, Public domain.

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