Making and keeping friends

The frontispiece of Mary Baker Eddy’s Miscellaneous Writings 1883–1896 quotes 17th-century poet Ben Jonson:

When I would know thee … my thought looks
Upon thy well made choice of friends and books;
Then do I love thee, and behold thy ends
In making thy friends books, and thy books friends.

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