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Edgar Guest - The Obligation Of Friendship
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You ought to be fine for the sake of the folks
Who think you are fine. 
If others have faith in you doubly you`re bound
To stick to the line.
It`s not only on you that dishonor descends: 
You can`t hurt yourself without hurting your friends.

You ought to be true for the sake of the folks
Who believe you are true.
You never should stoop to a deed that your friends
Think you wouldn`t do. 
If you`re false to yourself, be the blemish but small,
You have injured your friends; you`ve been false to them all.

For friendship, my boy, is a bond between men
That is founded on truth: 
It believes in the best of the ones that it loves.
Whether old man or youth; 
And the stern rule it lays down for me and for you
Is to be what our friends think we are, through and through.
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