A charcoal1-burner carried on his trade in his own house. One dayhe met a friend, a fuller, and entreated2 him to come and livewith him, saying that they should be far better neighbors andthat their housekeeping expenses would be lessened3. The fullerreplied, "The arrangement is impossible as far as I am concerned,for whatever I should whiten, you would immediately blacken againwith your charcoal." 
Like will draw like. 