FRIENDSHIP.
“Friendship is the supreme value in life, and the source of all other values. The others are only moons that reflect the light of friendship. If their sun is darkened, they, too, will disappear in the blackness that covers the ■world. Do not think that this is too simple and easy? .Simple it is, perhaps, but not easy. There is nothing that we fear more than friendship, nothing that strikes more terror into us than freedom, if this seems a strange saying, it must be because you are confusing friendship with friendliness. Friendliness is not to he despised, but it is only the imitation of friendship, and a poor, substitute for the real thing. It is really only a refined form of service, and often a rather superficial one. But friendship knows no reservations. It gives, not sympathy or comfort, or advice or help, hut itself. To he a friend is to be yourself for another person. It means putting all your cards on the table and taking all the consequences. It means stark reality between persons without pretence or sentimentality.” Professor John MacMurrav, of University College, London.
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Hokitika Guardian, 15 March 1929, Page 2
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189FRIENDSHIP. Hokitika Guardian, 15 March 1929, Page 2
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