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PG-P.754.065
13 Jun 1754:11,12,13 (1329)
From the New Universal Magazine for November, 1753
An Essay on Friendship.
The choice of those with whom we are to be intimate, is a
most necessary caution, so few are truly worthy. . . [44
lines] True friendship can be founded only on the
principles of virtue. It was a saying of Cicero, and Mr.
Addison, in his excellent tragedy of Cato, hath given the
same thought to Portius: That a candid correction, where we
see an error in the conduct or opinion of our acquaintance,
proves the sincerity of the heart. . . [1 1/2 columns more]
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