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Perfect English And Its Translation ...

Scintillate, scintillate asteroid minific
Translation: Twinkle, twinkle little star

Members of an avian species of identical plumage congregate ensemble
Translation: Birds of a feather flock together

Surveillance should precede saltation
Translation: Look before you leap

Pulchritude possesses solely cutaneous profundity
Translation: Beauty is only skin deep

It is fruitless to become lachrymose over precipitously departed lacteal fluid
Translation: Don't cry over spilled milk

Freedom from encrustation of grime is contiguous to rectitude
Translation: Cleanliness is next to godliness

The stylus is more potent than the claymore
Translation: The pen is mightier than the sword

It is fruitless to attempt to indoctrinate a superannuated canine with innovative maneuvers
Translation: You can't teach an old dog new tricks

The temperature of the aqueous content of an unremittingly ogled saucepan does not reach 212 degrees Fahrenheit
Translation: A watched pot does not boil

All articles that coruscate with resplendence are not truly auriferous
Translation: All that glitters is not gold

Where there are visible vapors having provenance in ignited carbonaceous materials, there is conflagration
Translation: Where there's smoke there's fire

A plethora of individuals with expertise in culinary techniques vitiate the potable concoction produced by steeping certain comestibles
Translation: Too many cooks spoil the broth

Eleemosynary deeds have their incipience intramurally
Translation: Charity begins at home

Male cadavers are incapable of yielding any testimony
Translation: Dead men tell no tales

Individuals who make their abode in vitreous edifices would be advised to refrain from catapulting petrous projectiles
Translation: People in glass houses shouldn't throw stones