Better be a nettle in the side of your friend than his echo. ✨ Ralph W…

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Better be a nettle in the side of your friend than his echo. ✨ Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). Essays and Lectures, p.350, Library of America
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