To talk with learned friends is like
reading a rare books, to talk with poetic friends is like reading the poems and
prose of distinguished writers, to talk with friends who are careful and proper
in their conduct is like reading the classics of the sages and to talk with
witty friends is like reading a novel or romance.
Every quite scholar is bound to have some
bosom friends. Bosom friends are those
who, although separated by thousands of miles, still have implicit faith in us
and refuse to believe rumors against us, those who on hearing a rumor try every
means to explain it away, those who in given moments advise us to what to do
and what not to do and those who at the critical hour come to our help, and
sometimes without our knowing undertake of their own accord to settle a
financial account, or make a decision, without for a moment questioning whether
by doing so they are not making themselves open to criticism of perhaps
injuring our interests.
A “remarkable book” is one which say things
that have never been said before and a “bosom friend” is one who unburdens to
us his family secrets.
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