child's hand; they will never say any thing to a man.--_Selden_.

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There be that can pack the cards, and yet cannot play well: so there are
some that are good in canvasses and factions, that are otherwise weak
men.--_Lord Bacon_.

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A poet hurts himself by writing prose; as a race-horse hurts his motions
by condescending to draw in a team.--_Shenstone_.

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I cannot imagine why we should be at the expense to furnish wit for
succeeding ages, when the former have made no sort of provision for
ours.--_Swift_.

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Reserve is no more essentially connected with understanding, than a church
organ with devotion, or wine with good nature.--_Shenstone_.

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Those beings only are fit for solitude, who like nobody, are like nobody,
and are liked by nobody.--_Zimmerman_.

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