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It was fortunate that, as a young boy, I was never told to keep ______ any children. Nor was I ever advised to keep ______ with intelligent or rich classmates. My sister – she was the only one to speak to me on the subject of friendly duties – simply encouraged me to be generous and loyal to whatever friend I had ______ up.
We have heard often of ‘choosing friends wisely’, of parents trying to mix their sons and daughters with some children while keeping them _______ from others. But I have never chosen a friend. For me, to become friends is to _______ to each other in a very natural, unforced way. One is a friend to another just because one cannot keep __out___of him and cannot help enjoying his company. Time spent with him does not feel like time ‘taken _______ at all.
And that is why I can never understand is the notion friends for pleasure’. It means that there other kinds of friends, friends which are not for pleasure. But what people can we count as friends who never the less bring us no pleasure? And if friends for pleasure offer us only pleasure and no peace, no confidence, no sympathy, as the term ‘friends for pleasure’ seems to imply, are they really our friends?
But people keep ______ saying things about ‘choosing friends wisely. What are we to make of this? Perhaps they mean that one should be prudent in _______ up an ally. In this people might be right, but then they are not saying anything about friendship.
What would you like to do with your best friend? Would you take him/her ______ to dinner once a week? Do you like ______ books out and returning them together at the library? Would you prefer to take clocks and bicycles ______ just to re-assemble them?
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