Who ever converses among old books will be hard to please among the new.
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Holland is a country, where the earth is better than the air, and profit more in request than honor where there is more sense than wit more good nature than good humor and more wealth than pleasure where a man would choose rather to travel than tWilliam Temple
When all is done, human life is, at the greatest and the best, but like a froward child, that must be played with and humored a little to keep it quiet till it falls asleep, and then the care is over.
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Authority is by nothing so much strengthened and confirmed as by custom; for no man easily distrusts the things which he and all men have been always bred up to.
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Reacting to evangelists' fondness for quoting Isaiah 118, 'Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow....' All my sins are grey.
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Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of ages through which they passed.
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