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“My friends are my "estate." Forgive me then the avarice to hoard them.”

— Emily Dickinson

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Source

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Wikiquote: Emily Dickinson
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Context

Letter to Samuel Bowles (August 1858 or 1859); Thomas H. Johnson (ed.) The Letters of Emily Dickinson (1958) p. 338, no. 193

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Dickinson, Emily. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Emily Dickinson. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Emily_Dickinson

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