"Most Mens' Anger about Religion is as if two Men should quarrel for a Lady they neither of them care for."

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

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

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