| Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989. |
| NUMBER: | 687 |
| AUTHOR: | Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) |
| QUOTATION: | But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life; and thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | President THOMAS JEFFERSON, letter to Maria Cosway, October 12, 1786.—The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, ed. Julian P. Boyd, vol. 10, pp. 449–50 (1954). |
| SUBJECTS: | Friendship |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia |
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