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ENGLISH INSTRUCTOR.

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We are complaining that our days are few, and acting as if there would be no end of them *.

Let not your expectations from the are to come, rise too high.

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When our vices leave us, we flatter ourselves that we leave them.

Some things are wanting to poverty; but all things are wanting to avarice.

To err is human; to forgive, divine.

The prodigal robs his heir; the miser robs himself.

Do nothing in thy passion; why wilt thou put to sea in the violence of a storm?

No revenge is 3 more heroic than that which torments envy by doing good 4.

1 As if......, comme s'ils ne devaient point avoir de fin.-2 That, de, avec l'infinitif.-3 No revenge is, il n'est pas de vengeance.—4By doing good, par une con

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By taking revenge5, a man is but even with his enemy; by passing it over, he is superior".

None more impatiently suffer injuries, than those that are most forward in doing' them.

A wise man will desire no more than what he may get justly, use soberly, distribute cheerfully, and live on contentedly.

Ingratitude is a crime so shameful, that the man was never yet found, who would acknowledge himself guilty of it".

It is ungenerous to give a man occasion to blush at his own ignorance in one thing, who perhaps may excel us in many ".

The coin that is most current among mankind is flattery; the only benefit of which is, that by hearing what we are not, we may be instructed what we ought to be.

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Wherever I find a great deal of gratitude in a

duite honorable.-5By taking revenge, en assouvissant sa vengeance.—6 Sous-ent. to his enemy.- 7 Most forward in doing, qui rougit le moins de faire.Anglicisme dont la traduction littérale est celle-ci : et cela avec quoi il peut vivre content.-9 Construisez : the man, who would....., was never yet found.10 To give one occasion to blush at, faire rougir quelqu'un de.-11 Sous-ent. things.-12 Instructed

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poor man, I take it for granted13 there would be as much generosity14, if he were a rich man 15

A man should never be ashamed to own 16 he has been in the wrong; which is but saying in other words, that he is wiser to-day than he was yesterday.

Forsake not an old friend, for the new is not comparable to him: a new friend is as new wine; when it is old, thou shalt drink it with pleasure.

Men and statues that we admired in an elevated situation, have 19 a different effect upon us, when we approach them; the first appear less than we imagined them, the last bigger.

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It happens to men of learning as to ears of corn; they shoot up and raise their heads high while they are empty; but when " full and swelled with grain, they begin to flag and droop.

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to human soul. The philosopher, the saint, the hero, the wise, the good or the great

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what, instruits de ce que.-13 I take it for granted, je suppose que.- 14 Sous-ent. in him.-15 If he were a rich man, s'il était riche. -16 Sous-ent. that.17 Which is...., ce n'est que dire en d'autres termes —18 Traduisez par le futur.-19 Have, produisent.— 20 It happens to, il en est de.-21 But when, mais

man very often lie hid and concealed in a plebeian, which a proper education might have 22 disinterred and brought to light.

A man writes very often much better than he lives he proposes his schemes of life in a state of abstraction and disengagement, exempt from the enticements of hope, the solicitations of affections, the importunities of appetite or the depressions of fear; and is in the same state with him 23, who teaches upon land the art of navigation, to whom the sea is always smooth, and the w nd always prosperous.

une fois.-22 Might have, aurait pu, suivi de l'infinitif. -23 With him, que celui.

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