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Better to challenge a friend than merely agree, and true friendship requires being able to do without it

Drawn from what Ralph Waldo Emerson said

Subjectfriendship
What this subject means

friendship The company you keep: whether the people around you make you better or worse, and how to choose them.

What Ralph Waldo Emerson actually said

  1. Ralph Waldo Emerson American essayist and lecturer (1803 to 1882)
    Better be a nettle in the side of your friend than his echo. The condition which high friendship demands is ability to do without it.

    Where this was said

    ↗Essays, First Series (1841)gutenberg.org

    c. 1841–1847

    All 22 korrents from this piecethis one is 16th

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