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It was his habit to associate with all sorts and conditions of men, but to be intimate with the good.Whenever he heard men praise or blame others, he thought that he gained as much insight into the character of the critics as of the persons they criticized.If friends proved deceivers he forebore to blame their victims, but he heaped reproaches on those who let an enemy deceive them; and he pronounced deception clever or wicked according as it was practised on the suspicious or the confiding.
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