“SAVE US FROM OUR FRIENDS.”
“If some of the great artists and writers of the past had listened to the advice of candid friends, the world would have been the poorer for the loss of many beautiful pictures and outstanding books that we enjoy today. We may not be great artists or woftderful writers, but our work, well done, is of some importance to the world we live in, and certainly to ourselves. Anything that tends to lower our pride in ourselves and our work tends equally to lower our capacity for betterment. That is where the candid friend fails in his avowed desire to stir us up to better performances, and, after a time, even the best of us become suspicious of his motives. ‘ Save us from our friends ’ might be applied with peculiar appropriateness to those whose ‘candour’ outruns their courtesy.”—“ C.R.0.T.,” in the London “ Daily Chronicle.”
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Hokitika Guardian, 22 October 1929, Page 8
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149“SAVE US FROM OUR FRIENDS.” Hokitika Guardian, 22 October 1929, Page 8
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