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“My best friend is he who rights my wrongs or reproaches my mistakes.”
Mi mejor amigo es el que enmienda mis errores o reprueba mis desaciertos.
Quoted in Historia Jeneral de Chile : Pt. 9. Organizacion de la Republica, 1820-1833 (1894) by Diego Barros Arana, p. 298
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