"Suspicion seldom wanteth Food to keep it up in Health and Vigour. It feedeth upon every thing it seeth, and is not curious in its Diet."

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“A man that should call every thing by its right Name, would hardly pass the Streets without being knock'd down as a common Enemy.”

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