Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted... but to weigh and consider.
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Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.
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A man ought warily to begin charges which once begun will continue.
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A man must make his opportunity, as oft as find it.
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