This section is from the book "Facts Worth Knowing", by Robert Kemp Philip. Also available from Amazon: Inquire Within for Anything You Want to Know.
We should ever have it fixed in our memories, that by the character of those whom tec choose for our friends, our own is likely to he formed, and will certainty be judged of by the world. We ought therefore, to be slow and cautious in contracting intimacy; but when a virtuous friendship is once established, we must ever consider it as a sacred engagement. - Dr. Blair.
 
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