flattery. For this vice should be branded under as many names as
possible, being that of worthless and designing men, who say everything
with a view of pleasing, and nothing with regard to truth. Now while
hypocrisy in all things is blamable (for it does away with all judgment
of truth, and adulterates truth itself), so especially is it repugnant
to friendship, for it destroys all truth, without which the name of
friendship can avail nothing.

--_Cicero_.

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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.

--_Chambers_.

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The man who prefers his dearest friend to the call of duty will soon
show that he prefers himself to his dearest friend.

--_Robertson_.

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There is nothing like putting the shine on another's face to put the
shine on our own. Nine-tenths of all loneliness, sensitiveness,
despondency, moroseness, are connected with personal interests. Turn
more of those selfish interests into unselfish ones, and by so much we