"The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.“


-George Bernard Shaw

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The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.

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