“Like summer friends,
Flies of estate and sunneshine.”
George Herbert (1593–1633) Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest
The Answer, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“My friends are my "estate."”
Forgive me then the avarice to hoard them.
Letter to Samuel Bowles (August 1858 or 1859), letter #193 of The Letters of Emily Dickinson (1958), edited Thomas H. Johnson, associate editor Theodora Ward
Variant: My friends are my "estate." Forgive me then the avarice to hoard them.
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