—Chinese.
676
By my skill I have got many acquaintances, my manners very many friends.
677
Friends are lost by calling often, and calling seldom.
678
CHOOSING FRIENDS.
We ought always to make choice of persons of such worth and honor for our friends, that, if they should even cease to be so, they will not abuse our confidence, nor give us cause to fear them as enemies.
—Addison.