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It behooves a prudent person to make trial of everything before arms.

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There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it reluctantly.

Nothing is said nowadays that has not been said before.

Do you fear to trust the word of a man, whose honesty you have seen in business?

The nature of all men is so formed that they see and discriminate in the affairs of others, much better than in their own.

By too much knowledge they bring it about that they know nothing.

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