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Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.

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Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men.

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Despise no new accident in your body, but ask opinion of it… There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic. A man’s observation, what he finds ...more

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The inquiry of truth, which is the love-making, or the wooing of it, the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it, and the belief of truth, whi...more

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Truth is a good dog; but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your brains kicked out.

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There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic: a man's own observation what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of is the best physic to pr...more

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Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.

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Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men.

"

Despise no new accident in your body, but ask opinion of it… There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic. A man’s observation, what he finds ...more

"

The inquiry of truth, which is the love-making, or the wooing of it, the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it, and the belief of truth, whi...more

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Truth is a good dog; but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your brains kicked out.