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So it is that fellow - citizens are preferred in our affections to foreigners , relations to strangers ; for in their case Nature herself has caused a kind of friendship to exist , though it is one which lacks some of the elements of ...
So it is that fellow - citizens are preferred in our affections to foreigners , relations to strangers ; for in their case Nature herself has caused a kind of friendship to exist , though it is one which lacks some of the elements of ...
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But friendship embraces innumerable advan- tages . Turn which way you please , you will find it at hand . It is every- where ; and yet never out of place , never unwelcome . Fire and water themselves , to use a common expression ...
But friendship embraces innumerable advan- tages . Turn which way you please , you will find it at hand . It is every- where ; and yet never out of place , never unwelcome . Fire and water themselves , to use a common expression ...
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actual existence of the friendship ; for friendship so often precedes the formation of a judgment , and makes a previous test impossible . If we are prudent then , we shall rein in our impulse to affection as we do chariot horses .
actual existence of the friendship ; for friendship so often precedes the formation of a judgment , and makes a previous test impossible . If we are prudent then , we shall rein in our impulse to affection as we do chariot horses .
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| Title | Gateway to the Great Books: Philosophical essays Volume 10 of Gateway to the Great Books, Robert Maynard Hutchins |
| Editors | Robert Maynard Hutchins, Mortimer Jerome Adler |
| Publisher | Encyclopędia Britannica, 1963 |
| Length | 644 pages |
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