Enemies and false friends [ Antagonism & Resistance ]
… acutely aware of the ease with which an intimate relationship might tip over into an enmity. It is noteworthy that few printed periodicals or treatises from this period explicitly dealt with the subject of enmity. However, it was always a … ‘dangerous Companion’ threatened the very foundations of civil conversation. 13 His private counsel was echoed in other printed advice literature, such as that by the Scottish physician John Gregory in A Father’s Legacy to His Daughters …
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