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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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