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“Neither make thy friend equal to a brother; but if thou shalt have made him so, be not the first to do him wrong.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Works and Days. Line 707.
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- b9db8e95ae5a00a00b2b67ea74a8c91886eff524c631adeabf00d9ef3c86c574
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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