He who does a kindness to an ungrateful person, sets his seal to a flint and sows his seed upon the sand; on the former he makes no impression, and from the latter finds no product.
Robert SouthSpeech was given to the ordinary sort of men, whereby to communicate their mind; but to wise men, whereby to conceal it.
Robert SouthThe seven wise men of Greece, so famous for their wisdom all the world over, acquired all that fame, each of them, by a single sentence consisting of two or three words.
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