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“Friendship with oneself is all-important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
First Lady and diplomat
As quoted in The Beacon Book of Quotations by Women (1992) by Rosalie Maggio, p. 130
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