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Well, I have just read about a dozen of Kipling's poems and was really inspired by his thoughts. Find some time, open a web-page with his chef-d'oeuvre of poetic art and enjoy those minutes in quiet one on one with yourself. Try to abstract away from the routine and just become a little wiser. Kipling has a poem for everyone, I guess. Just now I want to put in this post one of his poems, not his famous "If" though, but yet no little worse. For me deliberating often on such issues as friends and friendship quatrains from "Thousandth Man" were not a revelation, but on the contrary - a proof of my own stream of conscience...
Maybe in his comparisons he is a bit carried away and give way to exaggeration, but anyway it just helps to catch the essence, I reckon.
No more words - just read.

One man in a thousand, Solomon says,
Will stick more close than a brother.
And it's worth while seeking him half your days
If you find him before the other.
Nine nundred and ninety-nine depend
On what the world sees in you,
But the Thousandth man will stand your friend
With the whole round world agin you.

'Tis neither promise nor prayer nor show
Will settle the finding for 'ee.
Nine hundred and ninety-nine of 'em go
By your looks, or your acts, or your glory.
But if he finds you and you find him.
The rest of the world don't matter;
For the Thousandth Man will sink or swim
With you in any water.

You can use his purse with no more talk
Than he uses yours for his spendings,
And laugh and meet in your daily walk
As though there had been no lendings.
Nine hundred and ninety-nine of 'em call
For silver and gold in their dealings;
But the Thousandth Man h's worth 'em all,
Because you can show him your feelings.

His wrong's your wrong, and his right's your right,
In season or out of season.
Stand up and back it in all men's sight --
With that for your only reason!
Nine hundred and ninety-nine can't bide
The shame or mocking or laughter,
But the Thousandth Man will stand by your side
To the gallows-foot -- and after!