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Blessed are they who have the gift of making friends, for it is one of God’s best gifts. It involves many things, but, above all, the power of going out of one’s self, and seeing and appreciating whatever is noble and loving in another.
Blessed are they who have the gift of making friends, for it is one of God’s best gifts. It involves many things, but, above all, the power of going out of one’s self, and seeing and appreciating whatever is noble and loving in another.
Approximate author period: c. 1859 AD · industrial
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- Thomas Hughes
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- Approximate author period: c. 1859 AD · industrial
Approximate period for the recorded attribution to Thomas Hughes, based on documented lifetime 1822 to 1896. Source: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q332580 (checked 2026-10-08). This is not a quotation composition date or independent authentication of its attribution. Source: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q332580 (accessed 2026-10-08).
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- Thoughts: Selected from the writings of favorite authors (1901) (1901 AD)
Complete signed selection 416; printed byline: Thomas Hughes; New York: Dodge Publishing Company, 1901
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