An idea from Self-Reliance and Other Essays

A friend who agrees with everything you say is no help. “Better be a nettle in the side of your friend than his echo.” There is one way to get a friend worth having: “the only way to have a friend is to be one.”

From Self-Reliance and Other Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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