Between whom there is hearty truth, there is love; and in proportion t…

Henry David Thoreau
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Between whom there is hearty truth, there is love; and in proportion to our truthfulness and confidence in one another, our lives are divine and miraculous, and answer to our ideal. . . . Friends do not live in harmony merely, as some say, but in melody.
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