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"I have often seen people uncivil by too much civility, and tiresome in their courtesy."
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"We can be knowledgeable with another man's knowledge, but we can't be wise with another man's wisdom."
"Did I know myself less, I might perhaps venture to handle something or other to the bottom, and to be deceived in my own inability; but sprinkling here one word and there another, patterns cut from severalpieces and scattered without design and without engaging myself too far, I am not responsible for them, or obliged to keep close to my subject, without varying at my own liberty and pleasure, and giving up myself to doubt and uncertainty, and to myown governing method, ignorance."
"Tis no wonder, says one of the ancients, that chance has so great a dominion over us, since it is by chance we live."
"The natural heat, say the good-fellows,first seats itself in the feet: that concerns infancy; thence it mounts into the middleregion, where it makes a long abode and produces, in my opinion, the sole true pleasures of human life; all other pleasures in comparison sleep; towards the end, like a vapor that still mounts upward, it arrives at the throat, where it makes its final residence, and concludes the progress."
"D'autant que nous avons cher, estre, et estre consiste en mouvement et action."
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