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“A man that hath friends must show himself friendly; and there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother.”
— Unattributed
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- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- ca4c281d3a97ddbc48a7378d99e37bf85296875f964b90916989ecfea1ed9430
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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