"There is Reason to think the most celebrated Philosophers would have been Bunglers at Business ; but the Reason is because they despised it."

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“A Man who is Master of Patience, is Master of everything else.”

“When the People contend for their Liberty, they seldom get any thing by their Victory but new Masters.”

“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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“Anger is never without an Argument, but seldom with a good one.”

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