Every one has a number of acquaintances; but no one has too many friends. For a friendship to be intimate and lasting, both friends must have some very special qualities.
The first main thing is Unselfish love. It’s the essence of friendship. But Friendship is a two-sided affair, lives by gives and takes. No friendship can last long which is all given on one side and all take on the other. A selfish person is incapable of true friendship. The love and service must be mutual.
Constancy is another important thing in friendship. Some people are constitutionally fickle. They take up an interest with enthusiasm, but soon they tire of it, and feel the attraction of some new subject. Such changeable and uncertain people are incapable of a life long friendship with anyone.
Friends must be loyal to each other, and they must know each other so well that there can be no suspicions between them. Suspicious nature, and those who are easily influenced by reports and whispers, can never make good friends.
There must be implicit confidence between friends, so that each can feel that he can tell the other his most intimate secrets without any fear of his being misunderstood or betrayed. But there are talkative and communicative people, who cannot keep a secret, either there own or those of others. Such people will never keep a friend long. At last, there must be perfect sympathy between friends. Where such real sympathy does not exist, friendship is impossible.
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