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But new friendships are
not to be scorned if they offer hope of bearing fruit,
like green shoots of corn that do not disappoint us
at harvest-time; yet the old friendships must
preserve their own place, for the force of age and
habit is very great. Nay, even in the case of the
horse just now referred to, everybody, nothing
preventing, would rather use one to which he has
grown accustomed than one that is untrained and
new. And habit is strong in the case not only of
animate, but also of inanimate things, since we
delight even in places, though rugged and wild, in
which we have lived for a fairly long time.
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