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<blockquote data-quote="Matthew_" data-source="post: 3680743" data-attributes="member: 54195">Here's the full passage for your reading (and yoinking) pleasure:It is a joyful thing indeed to hold intimate converse with a man after one’s own heart, chatting without reserve about things of interest or the fleeting topics of the world; but such, alas, are few and far between. Not that one desires a companion who will sit opposite and never utter a word in contradiction – one might as well be alone. Far better in hours of loneliness the company of one who, while he will listen with respect to your views, will disagree a little, and argue, saying “ Yes, that is so, but...,” or “For this reason such and such is the case.”And yet, with those who are not of the same way of thinking or are contentious, a man can only discuss things of passing interest, for the truth is that there must not be any wide gulf between bosom friends.– Yoshida Kenko (1283-1350), Tsurezure-Gusa (1340)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Matthew_, post: 3680743, member: 54195"] Here's the full passage for your reading (and yoinking) pleasure: [I]It is a joyful thing indeed to hold intimate converse with a man after one’s own heart, chatting without reserve about things of interest or the fleeting topics of the world; but such, alas, are few and far between. Not that one desires a companion who will sit opposite and never utter a word in contradiction – one might as well be alone. Far better in hours of loneliness the company of one who, while he will listen with respect to your views, will disagree a little, and argue, saying “ Yes, that is so, but...,” or “For this reason such and such is the case.” And yet, with those who are not of the same way of thinking or are contentious, a man can only discuss things of passing interest, for the truth is that there must not be any wide gulf between bosom friends.[/I] – Yoshida Kenko (1283-1350), [I]Tsurezure-Gusa[/I] (1340) [/QUOTE]

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