Friendship is a sheltering tree. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Friendship is a sheltering tree.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

1828

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Value of friendship Nature of friendship Friendship

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1828

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. "Youth and Age (1823)." Samuel Taylor Coleridge: The Major Works, edited by H. J. Jackson. Oxford University Press, 2009.

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Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. Youth and Age. c. 1828.

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