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many feminine friendships are also partnerships. But it is equally found among the relations of married people and of men with men. We also steal each other's reputation by withholding praise when it is due, by delicate or careless insinuations; by alluding to the disagreeable, in an acquaintance, without mentioning the extenuating circumstances. We often lessen another's impulse to greater striving by non-utterance of our admiration and love for him, our cool manners acting as non-conductors of energy. Want of appreciation of others becomes injustice. We do not try to understand before judging; people's motives are often better than their awkward results, actions. We are more liable to become depressed from lack of approval than self-conceited from knowledge of it.

Perfect truthfulness proceeds from noble simplicity, which seeks a worthy end rather than tawdry effect. Having given itself, it evokes as free surrender in another. Its

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