From Poor Richard’s Almanac

· He that cannot obey cannot command.

· He that lies down with dogs shall rise up with fleas.

· Love your neighbour; yet don’t pull down your hedge.

· A mob’s a monster; heads enough but no brains.

· Lost time is never found again.

· Early to bed, early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.

· Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.

· Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.

· He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

· Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.

· There will be sleeping enough in the grave.

· God heals, and the doctor takes the fee.

· Where there's Marriage without Love, there will be Love without Marriage.

· Setting too good an example is a kind of slander seldom forgiven.

· Well done is better than well said.

· God helps them that help themselves.

· If you would keep your secret from an enemy, tell it not to a friend.

· Don’t count your chickens before they are hatched.

· A friend in need is a friend indeed.

· Fish and visitors smell in three days.

· Don’t throw stones at your neighbours’, if your own windows are glass.

· Eat to live and not live to eat.

· Never leave till tomorrow, which you can do today.

· A rolling stone gathers no moss.

· Honesty is the best policy.

· A penny saved is a penny earned.

· Make hay while the sun shines.

DISCUSSION:

1. Comment on the quotations and give their equivalents in your language.

2. Which aphorisms are most useful today? Which no longer apply?

Writing option:

Choose one of the aphorisms and tell a story about a time when you saw its principle at work. You may pick one of your own experiences or tell of an event you witnessed in person, in a movie etc.

THOMAS JEFFERSON (1743 – 1826)

The phrase “Renaissance man” refers to a man who develops talents in many areas. Thomas Jefferson fits this ideal of the Renaissance man perhaps better than anyone else in American history. He was a lawyer, philosopher, architect, statesman. He is the author of the Virginia laws on religious freedom and of the Declaration of Independence. He was a talented scientist, with notable accomplishments in botany and agriculture. He designed and built the University of Virginia and set up a public library. Jefferson received a university education. In 1769 he was made a member of Virginia Assembly. All his life he supported the idea of self-government. He felt that property was the foundation of inequality. Jefferson the statesman served as United States ambassador to France, Secretary of State, and Vice-President. In 1800 Jefferson was elected President of the USA for two terms. Then he retired to his Virginia home Monticello, where he read, studied mathematics, and collected paintings. Thomas Jefferson died on July 4, 1826, the fiftieth anniversary of the adoption of the Declaration of Independence.

At the Second Continental Congress in Philadelphia, the talented, thirty-three-year-old Thomas Jefferson was chosen to draft the official statement of reasons for independence. Then the full Congress debated the Declaration for three days, making few more changes before adopting it on July 4. The Declaration has four main parts:

1. A preamble, or foreword, that announces the reason for the document

2. A declaration of people’s natural rights and relationship to government

3. A long list of complaints against the British King

4. A conclusion that formally states America’s independence.

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