“To Stan.
“I cannot allow other common
friendships to be placed in the same line
with ours. I have as much knowledge of
them as another and of the most perfect
of their kind, but I should not advise any-
one to measure them with the same rule;
he would be much mistaken. In those other
friendships one has to walk with one’s
bridle in one’s hand, prudently and
cautiously: the knot is not tied so tightly
but that it will cause some misgiving —
— But in the other kind where we
exhibit the very depths of our heart and
make no reservations, truly all the springs
of action must be perfectly ‘clear and true’.”(MONTAIGNE)
from Dicky, APRIL ‘45.”
Macaulay’s History of England, Volume 1.
Found by Peter Robins who says:
“The book was bought at Scarthin Books in Cromford, Derbyshire, England
but it has a stamp at the back of each volume from a bookshop in India; Bombay, from memory.
