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In like manner every young man who has a true sister will do well to take counsel of her concerning other young ladies with whom he would form close friendship. She knows far more than he can possibly know of their real character, and is competent to advise him. He will prove his wisdom by seeking her counsel, especially in forming intimate relationships, which may have so much to do with his whole future.
Indeed, there is not phase of his life into which a young man will not be the better and his life the cleaner and richer for the influence and the help of his sister. Washington Irving wrote these pathetic words concerning the loss he had sustained in his life from having no sisters: “Often have I lamented that Providence denied me the companionship of sisters. Often have I thought that had I been thus favored I should have been a better man.” There is many a man who would have been better if he had been blessed with sisters. Every brother who has a sister should cherish her and let his heart go out to her in loyal, manly love. He should prize her love for him as one of the sweetest flowers in the earth’s garden, one of the most sacred and precious things in life, and he should love her with an affection deep, tender and strong–
“For see, now only see! There’s no alloy
Of earth that creeps into the perfet’st gold
Of other loves–no gratitude to claim;
You never gave her life–not even the dross
That keeps life–never tended her, instructed,
Enriched her; so your love can claim no right
O’er hers, save pure love’s claim.”
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