The instinct of self-development naturally begets this self-sided view.

We insensibly find those persons congenial whose ideas resemble ours, and gravitate to them, as leaves on a pond do to one another, nearer and nearer till they touch.

Is it likely, then, that in the most important case of all the rule should suddenly cease to hold?
Is it to be presumed that even Socrates chose Xantippe for her remarkable contrariety to himself?
Mere physical attraction is another matter.

Corporeally considered, men not infrequently fall in love with their opposites, the phenomenally tall with the painfully short, the unnecessarily stout with the distressingly slender.

But even such inartistic juxtapositions are much less common than we are apt at times to think.