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大家网英语专八论坛 大家网英语专八论坛 /index_61.html /index_61.html I do not WiSh to treat friendships daintily, but With roughest courage. When they are real, they are not glass threads or frostwork, but the solidest thi ng We know. For now, after so many ages of experience, What do We know of nature, or of ourselves? Not One SteP has man take n toward the soluti On Of the problem of his desti ny. In OneCondemn ati On Of folly Sta nd the whole Uni VerSe of men. BUt the SWeet SinCerity of joy and peace, WhiCh I draw from this alliance With my brother S soul, is the nut itself, whof all nature and all thought is but the husk and shell. HaPPy is the house that SheIterS a friend! It might well be built, like a festal bower or arch, to entertain him a Single day. Happier, if he know the solemnity of that relation, and honor its law! He who OfferS himself a Candidate for that covenant comes up, like an OIymPian, to the great games, Where the first-born of the world are the COmPetitors. He proposes himself for Contests Where Time, Want, Danger, are in the lists, and he alone is ViCtOr who has truth enoUgh in his conStitUtion to PreSerVe the delicacy of his beauty from the Wear and tear of all these. The gifts of fortune may be PreSent or absent, but all the SPeed in that con test depe nds on intrin SiC no ble ness, and the con tempt of trifles. There are two elements that go to the composition of friendship, each so SOVereign that I Can detect no SUPeriOrity in either, no reason Why either should be first named. One is Truth. A friend is a PerSon With whom I may be Sincere. BefOre him I may think aloud. I am arrived at last in the PreSence of a man so real and equal, that I may drop even those Undermost garments of dissimulation, courtesy, and SeC Ond thought, WhiCh men n ever PUt off, and may deal With him Wjth the SimPliCity and wholeness With WhiCh One ChemiCal atom meets another. SinCerity is the IuXUry allowed, like diadems and authority, only to the highest rank, that being Permitte