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3. Wealth and content do not always Iwe together. 4. Relis call others to church but don't go themselves. 5- If we did not flatter ourselves, nobody else could. 6. Injuries dont use to be written on ice. 7. Great minds and great fortunes don't always go together. 8. The fire that does not warm me shall not scorch me. g. Ifyou don't open the door to the devil, he goes away. 10. The dust raiscd by the sheep does not choke the wolf. 80. — Verbe passif. 1. Never was a cat or dog drowned that could but see the shore. 2. The thief is sorry to be hanged, not that he is a thief. 3. There is more pleasure in loving than in being loved. 4. There is small différence (to the eye of the world ?) in being nought and being thought. so. 5. To be employ'd in useless things, is to be half idle. 6. To go as fast as a good friar that is invited to dinner. 7. ’Tis vain to speak reason where 'twill not be heard. 8. Call not a surgeon before you are wounded. 9. That sick man is not to be pitied who lias his cure in his sleeve. 10. To swallow an ox and be choked with the tail. 81. —- Verbe avec action immédiate. (. The devil is good when he is going away. 2. T he Baillif of Bedford is coming. 3. While the tall maid is stooping, the little one has swept the house. 4. I am talking of hay, and you of horse beans. 5. When the mutton is going, it is good to take a slice. 6. Farewell and be hanged; friends must part. 7. He is making cloth for fishes. 8. Ile that has a great nose thinks everybody is speaking of it. 82. — Verbes irréguliers (ier groupe). 1. When the house is burnt down, you bring water. 2. When the good man is from home, the good wife’s table is soon spread. 3. Vows made in storm are forgotten in calms. 4. Truth too fine spuns are subtile fooleries. 5. To look like a dog that has lost his tail. 6. Things that are not understood are admired.