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"Patience, to hear frivolous, impertinent, and unreasonable applications: with address enough to refuse, without offending; or, by your manner of granting, to double the obligation: dexterity enough to…"
"You need not tell all the truth, unless to those who have a right to know it all. But let all you tell be truth."
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