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Human brutes, like other beasts, find snares and poison in the provision of life, and are allured by their appetites to their destruction.

Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of.

My nose itched, and I knew I should drink wine or kiss a fool.

I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.

Where I am not understood, it shall be concluded that something very useful and profound is couched underneath.

Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance.

A wise person should have money in their head, but not in their heart.

Don’t set your wit against a child.

I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.

A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.