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88 Nothing can more tend to detroy peace of mind, than platonic attachments. They are begun in fale refinement, and frequently end in orrow, if not in guilt. The two extremes often meet, and virtue carried to exces will ometimes lead to the oppoite vice. Not that I mean to ininuate that there is no uch thing as friendhip between perons of different exes; I am convinced of the contrary. I only mean to oberve, that if a woman's heart is diengaged, he hould not give way to a pleaing deluion, and imagine he will be atisfied with the friendhip of a man he admires, and prefers to the ret of the world. The