• It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.

  Henry Ward Beecher
  American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker 1813-1887
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1. friendship
2. painful
3. through
4. cannot
5. loving
6. speak

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It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship. by : Henry Ward Beecher

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