Do you have many friends? How do you get on with them? Who is your best friend? Do you have common interests? Do you often argue? Does your friend help you if you are in need?
A playwright – драматург Essay writer – автор эссе Poet – поэт Novelist – романист / прозаик Friendship Generosity Betrayal Hypocrisy Moral
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One morning the old Water-rat put his head out of his hole. He had bright beady eyes and stiff grey whiskers and his tail was like a long bit of black india - rubber. Water-rat One morning Whiskers Rubber
The little ducks were swimming about in the pond, looking just like a lot of yellow canaries, and their mother, who was pure white with real red legs, was trying to teach them how to stand on their heads in the water.
“You will never be in the best society unless you can stand on your heads,” she kept saying to them; and every now and then she showed them how it was done. But the little ducks paid no attention to her. They were so young that they did not know what an advantage it is to be in society at all.
“What disobedient children!” cried the old Water-rat; “they really deserve to be drowned.” “ Nothing of the kind,” answered the Duck, “ every one must make a beginning, and parents cannot be too patient.”
Love is all very well in its way, but friendship is much higher. Indeed, I know of nothing in the world that is either nobler or rarer than a devoted friendship.”
And what would you do in return ?” said the little bird, swinging upon a silver spray, and flapping his tiny wings.
“ Once upon a time,” said the Linnet, “there was an honest little fellow named Hans.”
“‘Real friends should have everything in common,’ the Miller used to say, and little Hans nodded and smiled, and felt very proud of having a friend with such noble ideas. … Hans never troubled his head about these things, and nothing gave him greater pleasure than to listen to all the wonderful things the Miller used to say about the unselfishness of true friendship.
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