[104] Compare Burns:
O wad some power the giftie gie us
To see oursels as ithers see us!
Thy friend has a friend, and thy friend's friend has a friend: be
discreet.[105]
[105] See the Persian aphorisms on revealing secrets, _ante_,
p. 48.--Burns, in his "Epistle to a Young Friend," says:
Aye free aff hand your story tell
When wi' a bosom crony,
But still keep something to yoursel'
Ye scarcely tell to ony.
Poverty sits as gracefully upon some people as a red saddle upon a white
horse.