【正文】
There are other habits which, when formed in early life, are great blessings. Many successful men declare that they owe much of their prosperity to the formation of certain habits in early life, such as punctuality, early rising, honesty, and thoroughness. Among the habits which children should shun are slovenliness, rudeness, laziness, lying, stealing, and slandering. These are habits which soon fasten themselves on people. Unfortunately, older people often form habits which ought to have been avoided, such as swearing, drunkenness, gambling, and others even more dreadful. We should keep from all these vices, and strive to acquire such habits a