Ladies.
FRIENDSHIP. To make friends is easy enough, hut to keep them is much more difficult. So few of us appreciate the real value of friendship, that we frequently, through our own actions, estrange those who would be stanch and true if we would o ly let them. There isn’t a person in this world, hi oh. or low, rich or poor, who can afford to slight an offer of friendship made by one of the humblest of human beings. "We can prate of independence, hut we possess it not. One leans on another far more than v e in our self pride imagine. The prop of support on which we lean to-day may give way to-morrow, and then the helping hand, the kindly spirit and gentle guidance will be found of greater ■worth than the empty honors of world]y preferment. Friendship recognises faults, argues out its own opinions, is not given to adulation, is severe in utterance sometimes, hut not spitefully aggressive, and when the time comes that one needs a helping hand or a proof of real affection, if the jewel is genuine, it will glitter all the more brilliantly amid the poorer surroundings.
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Southern Cross, Volume 1, Issue 20, 12 August 1893, Page 10
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196Ladies. Southern Cross, Volume 1, Issue 20, 12 August 1893, Page 10
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