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By Ralph Waldo Emerson
The only reward of virtue, is virtue: the only way to have a friend, is to be one.
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- Friendship, in Essays, 1841 · Friendship, p. 176
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- Internet Archive (University of California Libraries scan of the James Munroe edition)
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From the essay "Friendship" in Essays, the first series (Boston: James Munroe and Co., 1841). This is the text of the 1841 first edition.