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A friend in need is a friend indeed

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  1. A friend who helps out when we are in trouble is a true friend — unlike others who disappear when trouble arises.


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"A friend in need is a friend indeed," he said.

From Reuters • Sep. 28, 2022

"A friend in need is a friend indeed," said he.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 103, May, 1866 by Various

"A friend in need, is a friend indeed."

From Games For All Occasions by Blain, Mary E.

A friend in need is a friend indeed, you know.

From The New Rector by Weyman, Stanley John

A friend in need is a friend indeed, and this friend is handsome as well as kind, although there is a little something or other, a suppressed vindictiveness, about his expression, that repels her.

From Molly Bawn by Hamilton, Margaret Wolfe

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