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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, you know.

From The New Rector by Stanley John Weyman

"A friend in need is a friend indeed," Molly, more particularly when he's a lord.

From The Dodd Family Abroad, Vol. I by Charles James Lever

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 Margaret Wolfe Hamilton

She even smiled her little pinched smile and pressed Rhoda's hand as she said, "A friend in need is a friend indeed."

From Superseded by May Sinclair

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