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Wit without humanity degenerates into bitterness. Learning without prudence into pedantry.
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Deep learning will make you acceptable to the learned; but it is only an obliging and easy behaviour, and entertaining conversation, that will make you agreeable to all companies.
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Learning is like bank-notes: prudence and good behaviour are like silver, useful upon all occasions.
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Every word she writes is a lie, including 'and' and 'the'.
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James Burgh
Born:
1714
Died:
1775
(aged 61)
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