TALKS WITH A KID BROTHER
"Now I should much prefer to room alone than with you," he wrote, "but those quarters sort of suit me, and I don't like the idea of overhauling my things and moving. So, as long as I've got to have a roommate, I'd rather have you than any one else, if you care to join me."
To this the other replied: "I don't want to room with you, though I like you; but I don't like my present rooms and I am willing to try you for a year upon condition that we call it off if we don't suit each other." It is partly, though only partly, because they have gone on that same frank basis ever since that they hit it off so well to this day, and always will, I suppose.
As you know, I do not believe in the disgusting and unnecessary habit of habitual and promiscuous candor in which some people indulge themselves with considerable self-satisfaction. There are lies which are founded on the highest Christian principle, namely, that of self-sacrifice for the benefit of others' feelings. It's largely in the motive whether a lie is right or wrong. It was not
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