① If your friend reminds you kindly of your faults, take what he says not only pleasantly, but thankfully.
② Few treasures are worth as much as a friend who is wise and helpful.
③ Such a one alone can remind us of our faults.
12番
① What you have to learn, if you are to be a good citizen of the world, is that though you will certainly dislike many of your neighbours, and differ from some of them so strongly that you could not possibly live in the same house with them, that does not give you the smallest right to injure them or even to be personally uncivil to them.
13番
① To be educated also means to understand something of how to make our intentions effective in the real world, of how to apply knowledge to the life one lives and the society in which one lives it.
② The aim of education is the acquisition of the art of the utilization of knowledge.
14番
① Different kinds of reading matter call for different kinds of reading.
② A reader must, first of all, decide what type of reading matter he has in his hand ;
③ and he must then read it accordingly.
④ Every piece of reading matter that comes before our eyes is not equally worth reading, nor do all make equal claims on our attention.
15番
① Japanese literature, in spite of its beauty and richness, is as yet inadequately known in the West.
② The reasons for this neglect are not hard to discover.
③ The difficulties of the Japanese language prevent all but a handful of foreigners from approaching the literature in the original.
16番
① The people of a country have to be ready for democracy in order to make it work.
② They must be educated enough so that they will make a wise choice and will not be deceived by dishonest politicians.
③ They also must work for democracy, keeping themselves informed of important issues and exercising their right to vote so that they will keep effective control of government.
17番
① If it were not for books, each generation would have to rediscover for itself the truths of the past.
② But books give us a permanent, accurate record of what others have thought about the very problems that face us now.
③ Those books which have made a lasting contribution to man’s quest for truth, we call great books.
18番
① I have often thought it would be a blessing if each human being were to become blind and deaf for a few days at some time during his early life.
② Darkness would make him more apprecia- tive of the delight of sight;
③ silence would teach him the joys of sound.
19番
① It is a worthy ambition to do well whatever one does.
② This is an ambition nobody should be without.
③ Even in the playground one should have an ambition to play well, to be a good pitcher or catcher, or to excel in whatever part one has to play.
④ A boy who is careless and indifferent in a game of ball will not be likely to accomplish much anywhere.
20番
① It is a matter of common knowledge that a man of genius is seldom successful in his own lifetime.
② He is too much superior to those about him to be quickly understood;
③ and his books or his pictures or his statue or his music is usually too superior to be quickly appreciated.
④ The greater the genius, the longer does it take the world to find it out and understand it.
