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... friends made him join under the impression that he had in him the makings of a politician . His friends were reading men , and he went through a course of English classics in a light amateurish manner . He admired George Meredith and ...
... friends made him join under the impression that he had in him the makings of a politician . His friends were reading men , and he went through a course of English classics in a light amateurish manner . He admired George Meredith and ...
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... friendship is intellectual . You are at- tracted by the gifts of your new acquaintance . His ideas are unfamiliar ; he ... friends ; by seeing them only at sufficiently long inter- vals to allow them to acquire fresh experiences and new ...
... friendship is intellectual . You are at- tracted by the gifts of your new acquaintance . His ideas are unfamiliar ; he ... friends ; by seeing them only at sufficiently long inter- vals to allow them to acquire fresh experiences and new ...
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... friends . They have business associates , playmates at the bridge table or on the golf links , buddies they fish or shoot or sail with , boon companions they drink with , comrades they fight with , but that is all . Of all the people I ...
... friends . They have business associates , playmates at the bridge table or on the golf links , buddies they fish or shoot or sail with , boon companions they drink with , comrades they fight with , but that is all . Of all the people I ...
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