Have good associates or don't associate at all. Be careful in the sele…

Ezra Taft Benson
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Have good associates or don't associate at all. Be careful in the selection of your friends. If in the presence of certain persons you are lifted to nobler heights, you are in good company. But if your friends or associates encourage base thoughts, then you had best leave them. ✨ Ezra Taft Benson (1974). God, family, country: our three great loyalties
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