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• Water continually dropping will wear hard rocks hollow.
• For the mind does not require filling like a bottle, but rather, like wood, it only requires kindling to create in it…
• It is wise to be silent when occasion requires, and better than to speak, though never so well.
• The same intelligence is required to marshal an army in battle and to order a good dinner. The first must be as…
• The richest soil, if uncultivated, produces the rankest weeds.
• It is circumstance and proper measure that give an action its character, and make it either good or bad.
• We are more sensible of what is done against custom than against nature.
• Custom is almost a second nature.

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