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A Friend

What is a friend?

I will tell you.

It is a person with whom you dare to be yourself.

Your soul can go naked with him.

He seems to ask of you to put on nothing, only to be as you are.

He does not want you to be better or worse.

When you are with him you feel as a prisoner feels who has been declared innocent.

You do not have to be on your guard. You can say as you think, so long as it is genuinely you.

He understands those contradictions in your nature that lead others to misjudge yor.r- With him you breathe freely.

You can avow your little vanities, and envies, and hates, and vicious sparks, your meanness and absurdities, and in opening them up to him they are lost, dissolved in the white ocean of his loyalty. He understands.

You do not have to be careful.

You can abuse him, neglect him, tolerate him.

Best of all, you can keep still with him. It makes no matter. He likes you.

He is like fire that purges all you do.

He is like water that cleanses all that you say.

He is like wine that warms you to the bone. He understands. He understands.

You can weep with him, laugh with him, sin with him, pray with him.

Through, and underneath it all he sees, knows, and loves you.

A friend, I repeat, is one with yourself.

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Seven Mistakes Of LiIe

The delusion that individual advancement is made'by crushing others down.

The tendency to worry about things that cannot be helped.

Insisting that things are impossible because we can't do them.

Wanting to force others to live and think as we do.

Neglgcting to'iead fine literature and thereby dodging refinernent.ol the mind.

Letting ffivial things in life stand in the way of doing important things.

Failure to establish the habit of saving.

Never Agcrin

They met on the bridge at midnight, They never shall meet again, For one was an eastbound heifer, And one was a westbound train.

Lincoln's Chcracter

One of the biographers of Lincoln dwells deeply on the tremendously depressing effect the Civil War had on the character of that very remurrkable man.

The news had come of a great victory for the North, and a lady visitor at the executive mansion said to him:

"Mr. President, this news should make you very happy."

"Madam," said Lincoln, with a face that seemed to carry all the woes of the world, "I never expect to be happy again."

A Fair Proposition

The firm had a new office boy. A few days after he started work, a ten dollar bill disappeared from the cash drawer. The boss called the new office boy in, and said severely: "There is ten dollars missing from the cash, Albert. Now you and I are the only ones whq have keys to that drawer."

"Well," said Albert, "suppose we just pay five dollars each and say no more about it."

Privcrte

The boy on the bus kept sniffing and wiping his nose on his sleeve. A lady next to him said:

"Boy, have you no handkerchief?"

He looked her over thoughtfully for a few moments. Yes'm," he said, "but I don't lend it to strangerS."

Rcrcicl Charcrcteristics

A wise man was discussing racial characteristics. He said: "Eight men were once wrecked on a desert island, 2 Irishmen,2 Scotchmen, 2 Englishmen, and 2 Americans. At the end of a year it was noted that: the Irishmen had fought each other twice every day; the Scotchmen had founded a Caledonian Society;'the,Englishmen had not spoken to each other, never having bben formally introduced; but the Americans in one month had opened a real estate agency, a Rotary Club, and a Chamber of Commerce."

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