A doctor was treating a sick man. When the man died, the doctor said to the people in the funeral procession, "This man, if he had kept off wine and taken his remedies, would not have died." "My good friend," retorted one of them, "it's no use saying that now, when it serves no purpose; you should have given him that advice when he could still have profited by it."
It is when they need it that we should lend our friends our help, instead of playing the clever man once their affairs are past hope.Moral
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