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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Lysis by Plato: manner; or the need of it has not been perceived until too late. 'Oh if he
had only told me' has been the silent thought of many a troubled soul. And
some things have to be indicated rather than spoken, because the very
mention of them tends to disturb the equability of friendship. The
alienation of friends, like many other human evils, is commonly due to a
want of tact and insight. There is not enough of the Scimus et hanc veniam
petimusque damusque vicissim. The sweet draught of sympathy is not
inexhaustible; and it tends to weaken the person who too freely partakes of
it. Thus we see that there are many causes which impair the happiness of
friends.
We may expect a friendship almost divine, such as philosophers have
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