wouldst get a friend, _prove him_ first, and be not hasty to
credit him."--_Ecclesias._ v. 7.

"_Diu cogita_, an tibi in amicitiam aliquis recipiendus sit: cum
placuerit fieri, toto illum pectore admitte: tam audacter cum illo
loquere, quam tecum."--Seneca, _Epist._ iii.

"Quid dulcius, quam habere amicum quicum omnia audeas sic loquere quam
tecum."--Cic., _de Amic._ 6.

"The friends thou hast, and their _adoption tried_,
Grapple them to thy heart with hoops of steel."

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"But do not dull thy palm with entertainment
Of each new-hatch'd, unfledg'd comrade."--Shakspeare, _Hamlet_, Act I.
Sc. 3.

"Bring not every man into thy house."--_Ecclesias._ vi. 7.

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"A man's attire, and excessive laughter, and gait, show what he
is."--_Ecclesias._ xix. 30.

"---- The apparel oft proclaims the man."--_Hamlet_, Act I. Sc. 3.

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"Unus Pellaeo juveni non sufficit orbis:
AEstuat infelix angusto limite mundi,
Ut Gyarae clausus scopulis, parvaque Seripho."--_Juv._ x. 168.

"_Hamlet._ What have you, my good friends, deserved at the hands of
fortune, that she sends you to prison here?

_Guildenstern._ Prison, my lord!

_Ham._ Denmark's a prison.

_Rosencrantz._ Then is the _world_ one.

_Ham._ A goodly one, in which there are many confines, wards, and
dungeons; Denmark being one of the worst.

_Ros._ We think not so, my lord.

_Ham._ Why, then, 'tis none to you; for there is nothing either good or
bad, but thinking makes it so: to me it is a prison.

_Ros._ Why, then, your ambition makes it one; 'tis too narrow for your
mind."--Shakspeare, _Hamlet_, Act II. Sc. 2.

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"Ad hanc legem natus es; hoc patri tuo accidit, hoc matri, hoc
majoribus, hoc omnibus ante te, hoc omnibus post te, series invicta, et
nulla mutabilis ope, illigat ac trahit cuncta."

"_King._ ---- You must know, your father lost a father;
That father lost--lost his; . . .
. . . . . . . .
To reason most absurd, whose common theme
Is death of fathers, and who still hath cry'd,
From the first corse, 'till he that died to-day,
_This must be so_."--_Hamlet_, Act I. Sc. 2.

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