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Pipefuls
Contributor(s): Morley, Christopher (Author)
ISBN: 1517368197     ISBN-13: 9781517368197
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
OUR PRICE:   $7.12  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: September 2015
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- Fiction | Classics
Physical Information: 0.27" H x 5.98" W x 9.02" (0.40 lbs) 128 pages
 
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Considering that most friendships are made by mere hazard, how is it that men find themselves equipped and fortified with just the friends they need? We have heard of men who asserted that they would like to have more money, or more books, or more pairs of pyjamas; but we have never heard of a man saying that he did not have enough friends. For, while one can never have too many friends, yet those one has are always enough. They satisfy us completely. One has never met a man who would say, "I wish I had a friend who would combine the good humour of A, the mystical enthusiasm of B, the love of doughnuts which is such an endearing quality in C, and who would also have the habit of giving Sunday evening suppers like D, and the well-stocked cellar which is so deplorably lacking in E." No; the curious thing is that at any time and in any settled way of life a man is generally provided with friends far in excess of his desert, and also in excess of his capacity to absorb their wisdom and affectionate attentions.