"We ought to devise all means possible for the preservation of true friendship where it exists and the reparation and retrivaal of it where it is withering and ready to die.""Let us be so wise as to choose for our intimate friends those who will concur with us in a serious endeavour to get the matter mended. For the truth is, in this, as in a trade, we can make only one side of the bargain. We can only do a little towards rectifying what is amiss in conversation and towards improving it to some good purpose unless those we converse with will do their part. We should desire to associate ourselves with those who will edify us and be edified by us, who we may either do good to, or get good from, or both." [Matthew Henry]
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