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Subtitle A Complete Sexual Science and a Guide to Purity and Physical Manhood, Advice to Maiden, Wife, and Mother, Love, Courtship, and Marriage
Author B.G. Jefferis
Categories Sexuality, Health, Non-fiction
Language English
Published 1894
Word count 134,734
Excerpt

, nor esteem any one for his wealth. Good friends should not be easily forgotten, nor used as suits of apparel, which, when we have worn them threadbare, we cast them off, and call for new. When once you profess yourself a friend, endeavor to be always such. He can never have any true friends that will be often changing them.

9. HAVE THE COURAGE TO CUT THE MOST AGREEABLE ACQUAINTANCE.--Do this when you are convinced that he lacks principle; a friend should bear with a friend's infirmities, but not with his vices. He that does a base thing in zeal for his friend, burns the golden thread that ties their hearts together.

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Self-Control.

"Honor and profit do not always lie in the same sack."--GEORGE HERBERT.

"The government of one's self is the only true freedom for the individual."--FREDERICK PERTHES.

"It is length of patience, and endurance, and forebearance, that so much of what is called good in mankind and womankind is shown."--ARTHUR HELPS.

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