What do you do for friends, as you ascend the ladder of intellectual sophistication? Do you hang in with your old pals or concentrate on intellectual peers? “If you do not drink with old friends as you used to drink with them, you cannot be loved by them as much. So choose whether you want to be a boozer and likeable to them, or sober and not likeable.” (Then he makes it clear that in his mind, satisfaction and self-respect are best served by escalating friendships apace with your education.) “But if that does not please you, turn about the whole of you, to the opposite; become one of the
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