A wise man should so write (though in words understood by all men) that wise men only should be able to commend him.
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Words are wise men's counters, they do but reckon with them, but they are the money of fools.
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During the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that conditions called war; and such a war, as if of every man, against every man.
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