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Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

1864

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Hawthorne, Nathaniel. Quoted in Nathaniel Hawthorne and His Wife: A Biography, by Julian Hawthorne. Vol. I, Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1893.

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