Make no man your friend before inquiring how he has used his former friends for you must expect him to treat you as he has treated them. Be slow to give your friendship, but when you have given it, strive to make it lasting for it is as reprehensible to make many changes in one's associates as to have no friends at all. Neither test your friends to your own injury nor be willing to forego a test of your companions.
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