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REFLECTIONS UPON CHAP. XX.—How great is the value and usefulness of a true friend, especially in a tune of distress and danger! The greatest disinterestedness of affection is implied in cordial friendship—it extends to posterity as well as to its immediate objects. When influenced by it, we cannot endure the shadow of what might produce a separation; and can more readily be abused ourselves than have our friend ill treated. Great patience, meekness, and pru-