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Robert Cecil
A wise man...
A wise man looks upon men as he does on horses; all their comparisons of title, wealth, and place, he consider but as...
Solitude shows us...
Solitude shows us what should be; society shows us what we are.
Source: In
Examples is more...
Examples is more forcible than precept. People look at my six days in the week to see what I mean on the...
Virtue consisted in...
Virtue consisted in avoiding scandal and venereal disease.
Source: Life in...
They improvidentially piped...
They improvidentially piped growing volumes of sewage into the sea, the healing virtues of which were advertised on...