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Genre:
"Prose"
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Gender of Author:
"Unknown"
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Work title:
"An Index to Mankind: or Maxims Selected from the Wits of all Nations "
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Literary Period:
"Age of Sensibility"
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"Eighteenth Century"
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"Industrial Revolution"
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"Long Eighteenth Century"
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Metaphor Category:
"Plant"
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Date: 1765
"Fancy and Wisdom seldom go together, nor are the Fruits of the same Soil or Season."
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Date: 1765
"I am apt to think that as Plants are choak'd with too much Moisture, and Lamps with too much Oil; so it happens to the Mind of Man, when it is embarass'd with too much Study and Matter; for being confounded with a great Variety of Things, it loses the Power of extricating itself, and so is rende...
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