What are some famous quotes about good friends?


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Quotes about good friends include Mark Twain's quote, "Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life,” and Ernest Hemingway's quote, “There is no friend as loyal as a book.” Another good quote about good friends is “It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them,” by Ralph Waldo Emerson.

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Mark Twain, born as Samuel Langhone Clemens, was an American author and humorist who lived from 1835 to 1910. Two of his well-known works in "The Adventures of Tom Swayer" and "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn."

Ernest Hemingway was an American author who lived from 1899 to 1961. He is best known for his novels "For Whom the Bell Tolls" and "The Old Man and the Sea." He was the recipient of both Pulitzer and the Nobel Prize.

Ralph Waldo Emerson was an American essayist, lecturer and poet who lived from 1803 to 1882. He was born in Boston, Massachusetts and attended Harvard College. After college, he assisted his brother at a young women's school and later went on to work as headmaster. In 1833, he begun lecturing throughout New England, a profession that brought him much recognition.

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