Топик: The Proverbs Are Children Of Experience (Пословицы - Дети Опыта)

Provides wisdom in short form

1. Saying without thinking, shooting without aiming

2. It is a hard thing to have a great estate, and not fall in love with it

2. Provides humor through words

1. Wise men make proverbs and fools repeat them

2. Not worth a fly

3. There’s no fool like an old fool

3. Helps one learn the language

1. Construction “there is”, “there are”

2. Gerund

3. Degrees of comparison of adjectives

III. Conclusion

WORKS CITED

The Oxford Dictionary of English Proverbs. Oxford University Press, Ely House,

London 1970.

The World Book Encyclopedia. New York 1999.

A Dictionary of American Proverbs, New York: Oxford University Press, 1992.

Mieder, Wolfgang. Proverbs are never out of season. New York: Oxford, 1993.

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