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RE we ever truly read, save by the one that loves us best? Love is blind, the phrase runs. Nay, I would rather say, love sees as God sees, and with infinite wisdom has infinite pardon.

-Ouida.

THESE things do not require to be
spoken; there is something in the
hand grip, and the look in the eye
that makes you know your man.

-C. Haddon Chambers.

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WOULD go up to the gates of hell with a friend,
Through thick and thin.”

The other said, as he bit off a concha's end,

"I would go in."

-John Ernest McCann.

O word is oftener on the lips of men than "friendship," and indeed no thought is more familiar to their aspirations. All men are dreaming of it, and its drama, which is always a tragedy, is enacted daily. It is the secret of the universe.

IT

Thoreau.

is a sad thing that there comes a moment when misery unknots friendships. There were two friends; there are two passers-by!

WHO

-Victor Hugo.

HO in want a hollow friend doth try,
Directly seasons him his enemy.

-Shakspere.

RIENDSHIP—to be two in one

FRIENDS

Let the canting liar pack!

Well I know, when I am gone,

How she mouths behind my back.

-Tennyson.

OFTEN find myself going

back to Darwin's saying about the duration of a man's friendships being one of the best measures of his worth.

-Anne Thackeray Ritchie.

THAT two men may be real friends, they must have opposite opinions, similar principles, and different loves and hatreds.

-Chateaubriand.

T is a good thing to be rich, and a good thing to be strong, but it is a better thing to be beloved of many

friends.

-Euripides.