The Spectator, No. 68 (Friday, 18 May 1711) [ Practices ]
… this. Among the several fine things which have been spoken of it, I shall beg leave to quote some out of a very ancient Author, whose Book would be regarded by our Modern Wits as one of the most shining Tracts of Morality that is extant, if … the Art of making Friends, by an obliging and affable Behaviour? And laid down that Precept which a late excellent Author has delivered as his own, 'That we should have many Well-wishers, but few 'riends.' Sweet Language will multiply … . In the next Words he particularizes one of those Fruits of Friendship which is described at length by the two fatuous Authors above-mentioned, and falls into a general Elogium of Friendship, which is very just as well as very sublime. A …
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