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The gift of friendship

Hyatt, Alfred H. (Alfred Henry), 1871-1911 [Compiler]; Addison, Joseph, 1672-1719 [Contributor]; Anthusa [Contributor]; Aristotle, 385 BCE-323 BCE [Contributor]; Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626 [Contributor]; Berkeley, George, 1685-1753 [Contributor]; Carlyle, Thomas, 1795-1881 [Contributor]; Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882 [Contributor]; Goldsmith, Oliver, 1730?-1774 [Contributor]; Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784 [Contributor]; Mackenzie, Henry, 1745-1831 [Contributor]; Montaigne, Michel de, 1533-1592 [Contributor]; Steele, Richard, Sir, 1672-1729 [Contributor]; Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862 [Contributor]; MacGoun, H. C. Preston (Hannah C. Preston), 1864-1913 [Illustrator]· 8 chapters· 32,797 words

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but quite otherwise. Only he may then speak who can sail on the common thought of the party, and not poorly limited to his own. Now this convention, which good sense demands, de...

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Friendship is, at any rate, a relation of perfect equality. It cannot well spare any outward sign of equal obligation and advantage. The nobleman can never have a Friend among h...

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It is not possible to set forth in language the pleasure which the presence of friends causes, but those only having experience know. One can ask a favour, and receive a favour,...

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other qualifications, a certain equability or evenness of behaviour. A man often contracts a friendship with one whom perhaps he does not find out till after a year’s conversati...

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and an extinction of benevolence? Exchange of endearments and intercourse of civility may continue, indeed, as boughs may for a while be verdant when the root is wounded; but th...

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infancy, and before the age of budding. For, if this fury did seize upon a base minded courage, the means of its pursuit, [were] riches, gifts, favour to the advancement of dign...

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me out of pocket in the end. Their theories of agriculture failed in my practice of them; and the ingenious men they recommended to me for tenants, seldom paid their rent by the...