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perhaps on spiritual unity - I don't know just what he meant by it - nevertheless he reached the same conclusions. I suppose I've arrived at it so I can express it like that out of maturity, but I just feel as though temperamentally I always knew it. I never expected everybody to be my friend, nor did I expect to be everybody's friend.

You are often admitted to partial and temporary friendship. You admit others to partial and temporary friendship, but you don't give your whole heart, your whole trust, your whole story to many people.

I think this was one of the misunderstandings between Roosevelt and Smith. Roosevelt had great reserves - terrific reserves - within himself that I doubt he ever revealed to anybody, even his wife. I think he revealed part of himself to one person, part of himself to another. I've never been sure that he had a full master pattern of himself within himself. After all, the great advice of the philosophers is to “know thyself.” I've never been positive that he fully knew himself, that he had a master pattern and really saw objectively all of these aspects of his personality which he revealed partly to one person, partly to another, perhaps more to some than to others. But I don't believe that he ever revealed himself totally to anybody. As I say, I sometimes doubt if he had a master pattern which





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