Abstract
“Even the death of friends will inspire us as much as their lives.”
-Thoreau: A Week on tlae Concord and Mern'mack Rivers (1849)
“Never trust a friend who deserts you in a pinch.”.
-Aesop: The Two Fellows and a Bear
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