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sion; for then the habit is no longer hospitality, but dissipation.

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HOSPITALITY IS A MOST EXCELLENT VIRTUE; but care must be taken that
the love of company, for its own sake, does not become a prevailing
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8.

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culture of kind intercourse
Must bring it to perfection."

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And Joanna Baillie tells us that

"Friendship is no plant of hasty growth,
Though planted in esteem's deep-fixed soil,
The gradual

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useful; for which reason, I should prefer a prudent
friend to a zealous one."

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Addison, who was not deficient in a knowledge of
mankind, observes that "a friendship, which makes the least noise, is
very often the most

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rst
fair appearances.

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ong
experience and thorough knowledge of the world, scrutinize the conduct
and dispositions of people before they trust themselves to the fi

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It should
be remembered, however, that this discernment does not always proceed
from an uncharitable temper, but that those who possess a l

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They imagine that every one who has any penetration
is ill-natured, and look coldly on a discriminating judgment.

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The friendship
of such persons is without attachment, and their love without affection
or even preference.

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he generous warmth to defend virtue.

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There are ladies who uniformly smile at, and
approve everything and everybody, and who possess neither the courage to
reprehend vice, nor t

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FRIENDSHIPS SHOULD NOT BE HASTILY FORMED, nor the heart given, at
once, to every new-comer.

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7.

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utual interchange of general and interesting information.

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If the duties of a family do not sufficiently occupy the time of a
mistress, society should be formed of such a kind as will tend to the
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safely dares, as prompt to sting."

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ile, no fountain knows;--
Fair-laced Deceit, whose wily, conscious aye
Ne'er looks direct; the tongue that licks the dust
But, when it