Advanced English Reading and Comprehension

200 practice makes perfect Advanced English Reading and Comprehension

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EXERCISE

Making a caseGive the meaning of each of the following quotations, and explain

how it relates to the concept of voluntary simplicity. Do you agree or disagree with

the quotations? Give reasons to support your opinion.

1.Only give up a thing when you want some other condition so much that the thing no longer

has any attraction for you.—Mahatma Gandhi

2.A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can aford to let alone.

—Henry David Thoreau

3.The simplest things are often the truest.—Richard Bach

4.With a few owers in my garden, half a dozen pictures and some books, I live without envy.

—Lope de Vega

5.Use it up, wear it out, make do or do without.—New England Puritans

6.Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph

of principles.—Ralph Waldo Emerson

Bibliography

Elgin, Duane, Voluntary Simplicity: Toward a Way of Life hat is Outwardly Simple, Inwardly Rich

(New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc., 1981).