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A principal fruit of friendship is the ease and discharge of the fulness and swellings of the heart, which passions of all kinds do cause and induce. We know diseases of stoppings and suffocations are the most dangerous in the body, and it is not much otherwise in the mind. You may take sarza to open the liver,...
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Bacon argues that friendship is not merely a social comfort, but a necessary medical purge for the mind's dangerous passions.
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