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\I. That I have taken away this old man's daughter is most

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2. See what a rent the envious Casca made.

3. Still the wonder grew,

That one small head could carry all he knew.

4. What a man is and what he can do, are matters of the first importance.

I am convinced that we have a degree of delight in the 5. real misfortunes and pains of others.

6. The scholar must know a subject itself, or he must know where to find information upon it.

7. The fault, dear Brutus, is in ourselves that we are underlings.

8. Who builds a church to God and not to fame, Will never mark the marble with his name.

9. He heapeth up riches and knoweth not who shall gather them.

10. This mournful truth is everywhere impressed,

"Slow rises worth by poverty depressed."

11. My prime request, O you wonder, is that you tell if you be maid or no.

12. The plea that we have no time for culture will vanish as soon as we desire culture so much that we begin to examine our use of time.

13. Be first in thy calling, whatever it be.

14. Now conscience wakes the bitter memory Of what he was, what is, and what may be.

15. Let none admire

That riches grow in hell.

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Many imagine they have finished a task when they have perceived what the task really is.

A woman who marries an old man, expecting that he on die, hangs herself in the hope that some one will nd cut the halter.

When Bishop Berkeley said, "there was no matter,"
And proved it, 'twas no matter what he said.

The reply of Socrates to him who asked whether he choose a wife, still remains reasonable, that whether he choose one or not he would repent it.

Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: "Fear and keep his commandments; for this is the whole duty n."

The reason why so few marriages are happy is that so young ladies spend their time in making nets when they d be making cages.

. And he gave it for his opinion that whoever could make ears of corn or two blades of grass grow upon a spot of nd where only one had grown before, would deserve well ankind and render essential service to his country.

3. 'Tis greatly wise to talk to our past hours

And ask them what report they bore to heaven.

4. I have always looked upon it as the worst condition of I's destiny, that persons are so often torn asunder just as become happy in each other's society.

5. She wished that Heaven had made her such a man.

6. Of praise a mere glutton, he swallowed what came,
And the puff of a dunce, he took it for fame;
Till, his relish grown callous almost to disease,
Who peppered the highest was surest to please.

XX. THE COMPOUND-COMPLEX SENTENCE

Explanation A compound-complex sentence consists of two or more independent members, at least one of which contains a dependent clause. The members may be joined by coördinating conjunctions, or not, according to the closeness of connection, the clearness of their relation, the peculiarity of construction, and the use of the same connectives between subordinate elements. No elements enter into the compound-complex sentence which have not already been discussed.

1. We are often unable to act on our certainties; our objection to a contrary issue is so strong that it rises like a spectral delusion between us and our certainties.

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