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“Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.”
—George Washington (1732–1799)

“They burned with fierce love always to come near,
But honor beat them back and kept them clear.”
—John Crowe Ransom (1888–1974)