FRIENDSHIP.
" We are very inhoS* at fanlt in bur indiscrlminate use of the word 'friend.' Nothing is so common as to hear it said of a 'p.opuIar' man- — horrid adjeotive — that he has many good friends. This means that he is a good fellow, with some sort of appeal, and not too much superiority to discourage familiarity. The oareful language to which I was alluding above would have retranslated the statement 'he has many friends' into the less gaudy but more accurate one, 'he has few enemies.' No thoughtful person who has pondered what real friendship is will take it for granted that even the most attraotive person can have many friends. It is as if we said of a brilliant man whom the women admire that he could have many wives, Reciprocity enters the coneept of friendship as well as that of marriage and our store of sentiment is not inexhaustible.',=-Abbe Ernest Dimnet, in " The Rotarian" (Chicago)^
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 30, 19 February 1937, Page 4
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