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“Choose for your friend him that is wise and good, and secret and just, ingenious and honest, and in those things which have a latitude, use your own liberty.
— Jeremy Taylor
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Jeremy Taylor, A Discourse of the Nature, Measures, and Offices of Friendship.
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