Later on when the fires burn low and we still have them with us they will be hard to push aside.
"To thine own self be true," says the great Shakespeare and how can we be true to our own selves if we train with inferiors?
We are known by our companionships.

We will be rated according to association--good or bad.

The two will not mix for long and we will be one sort of a fellow or the other.

We can't be both.
There was a time, long years ago, in the days of our grandfathers, when men went to the "bow-wows" and, later on, "came back" as it were, by making a partial success in life--measured largely by the money they succeeded in accumulating.

That was before the "check-up" system was invented.