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Says Charlie Cherokee.

--_Douglas Malloch_.

A day for toil, an hour for sport,
But for a friend life is too short.

--_Emerson_.

It's a pretty safe guess that if you have no friends you have done
something to deserve the fix you are in.

A friend who is not in need is a friend indeed.

_Friends_

Around the corner I had a friend,
In this great city, that has no end.
Yet days go by and weeks rush on
And before I know it, a year has gone,
And I never see my old friend's face,
For life is a swift and terrible race.
He knows I like him just as well
As in the days when I rang his bell,
And he rang mine, we were younger then
And now we are busy, tired men,
Tired of playing the foolish game,
Tired with trying to make a name.
"Tomorrow" I say, "I'll call on Jim
Just to show him that I think of him,"
But tomorrow comes, and tomorrow goes,
And the distance between us grows and grows.
Around the corner--yet miles away
"Here's a telegram, sir" Jim died today.
And that's what we get and deserve in the end,
Around the corner, a vanished friend.

--_C. Hanson Towne_.

_See also_ Borrowers.

FRIENDSHIP

"Friendship," said Uncle Eben, "don't mean no mo' to some folk dan a
license to borrow money."

Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals.--_Goldsmith_.

So long as we love we serve;
So long as we are loved by others
I would almost say that we are indispensable;
And no man is useless while he has a friend.

He removes the greatest ornament of friendship who takes away from it
respect.--_Cicero_.

Rejoice, and men will seek you;
Grieve, and they turn and go,
They want full measure of all your pleasure,
But they do not need your woe.

Be glad, and your friends are many;
Be sad, and you lose them all,--
There are none to decline your nectar'd wine,
But alone you must drink life's gall.

--_Ella Wheeler Wilcox_.

FUTURE

Youth measures the future with the straight, new ruler of the present;
Old Age, by the frayed and patched plumb-line of the past.

I announce myself unblushingly and with perfect confidence. Nobody has
anything on me.

Nobody can ever supplant me in the affections and desires of men. I am
supreme mogul of the universe.

Everybody is working for me. Asking nothing for myself, all men expect
everything of me. I withhold nothing