Friend is better than fortune. Friend is worse than poison in some___56___. The above two statements are opposite and seem to be___57___but they can be explained___58___: The latter___59___all evil friends who___60___us astray; the former___61___all good friends who drive us towards good.
My___62___friend is of course a good friend___63___goodness is shown___64___. He has no bad___65___, as smoking and drinking. He lives frugally. He studies diligently___66___waste his golden time.___67___he___68___his parents and loves his brothers; at school he respects his teachers and___69___his schoolmates. He treats those truly who are___70___him. He never speaks of others' evils___71___boasts of his own merits.___72___, he has all the good characters better
than___73___.1can follow him as a model. By his precepts I am___74___the danger of doing a wrong action. By his help I___75___all difficulties.
Indeed, if I have such a person as my friend, I shall never feel difficult and. I shall never know the existence of the word"failure."

