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1、大家网英语专八论坛Idonotwishtotreatfriendshipsdaintily,butwithroughestcourage.Whentheyarereal,theyarenotglassthreadsorfrostwork,butthesolidestthingweknow.Fornow,aftersomanyagesofexperience,whatdoweknowofnature,orofourselves?Notonestephasmantakentowardthesolutionoftheproble
2、mofhisdestiny.Inonecondemnationoffollystandthewholeuniverseofmen.Butthesweetsincerityofjoyandpeace,whichIdrawfromthisalliancewithmybrother’ssoul,isthenutitself,whereofallnatureandallthoughtisbutthehuskandshell.Happyisthehousethatsheltersafriend!Itmightwellbebuilt,
3、likeafestalbowerorarch,toentertainhimasingleday.Happier,ifheknowthesolemnityofthatrelation,andhonoritslaw!Hewhooffershimselfacandidateforthatcovenantcomesup,likeanOlympian,tothegreatgames,wherethefirst-bornoftheworldarethecompetitors.Heproposeshimselfforcontestswh
4、ereTime,Want,Danger,areinthelists,andhealoneisvictorwhohastruthenoughinhisconstitutiontopreservethedelicacyofhisbeautyfromthewearandtearofallthese.Thegiftsoffortunemaybepresentorabsent,butallthespeedinthatcontestdependsonintrinsicnobleness,andthecontemptoftrifles.
5、Therearetwoelementsthatgotothecompositionoffriendship,eachsosovereignthatIcandetectnosuperiorityineither,noreasonwhyeithershouldbefirstnamed.OneisTruth.AfriendisapersonwithwhomImaybesincere.BeforehimImaythinkaloud.Iamarrivedatlastinthepresenceofamansorealandequal,
6、thatImaydropeventhoseundermostgarmentsofdissimulation,courtesy,andsecondthought,whichmenneverputoff,andmaydealwithhimbbs.topsage.com/index_61.html大家网英语专八论坛withthesimplicityandwholenesswithwhichonechemicalatommeetsanother.Sincerityistheluxuryallowed,likediademsanda
7、uthority,onlytothehighestrank,thatbeingpermittedtospeaktruth,ashavingnoneaboveittocourtorconformunto.Everymanaloneissincere.Attheentranceofasecondperson,hypocrisybegins.Weparryandfendtheapproachofourfellow-manbycompliments,bygossip,byamusements,byaffairs.Wecoverup
8、ourthoughtfromhimunderahundredfolds.Iknewaman,who,underacertainreligiousfrenzy,castoffthisdrapery,and,omittingallcomplimentandcommonplace,spoketothecons
