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Speech was given to the ordinary sort of men, whereby to communicate their mind but to wise men, whereby to conceal it.
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The Scripture vouches Solomon for the wisest of men; and his proverbs prove him so, The 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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If you would be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.
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Order is the sanity of the mind, the health of the body, the peace of the city, the security of the state. Like beams in a house or bones to a body, so is order to all things.
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No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth
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