My friends are my 'estate.' Forgive me then the avarice to hoard them.
In plain words
Friends are a treasure. It's fine to guard them like one.
Where these words come from
- 85% sureThese words were traced back to where they first appeared. That source is listed below.
- From a letter to Samuel Bowles, Aug. 1858/59. In Thomas H. Johnson (ed.), The Letters of Emily Dickinson (1958), p.338, no.193.
- Letter to Samuel Bowles (Letters of Emily Dickinson, no. 193)
- c. 1858
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