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What may be very entertaining in company with ignorant people may be tiresome to those who know more of the matter.
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The beauty of behaviour consists in the manner more than the matter of your discourse.
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Fools pretend to foretell what will be the issue of things, and are laughed at for their awkward conjectures. Wise men being aware of the uncertainty of human aflairs, and having observed how small a matter often produces a great change, are modest in their conjectures.
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James Burgh
Born:
1714
Died:
1775
(aged 61)
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