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• There is not one grain in the universe, either too much or too little, nothing to be added, nothing to be spared; nor so much as any one particle of it, that mankind may not be either the better or the worse for, according as it is applied.

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  May, Littles, Too Much

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• A body may well lay too little as too much stress upon a dream; but the less he heed them the better.

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  Dream, Stress, Body

  Aesop, Roger L'Estrange, Alexander Calder (1967). “Fables of Aesop”, p.56, Courier Corporation

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• To be longing for this thing to-day and for that thing to-morrow; to change likings for loathings, and to stand wishing and hankering at a venture--how is it possible for any man to be at rest in this fluctuant, wandering humor and opinion?

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  Men, Wish, Venture

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• It is a way of calling a man a fool when no attention is given to what he says.

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  Men, Attention, Calling

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• Some natures are so sour and ungrateful that they are never to be obliged.

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  Ungrateful, Sour, Obliged

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• So long as we stand in need of a benefit, there is nothing dearer to us; nor anything cheaper when we have received it.

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  Gratitude, Long, Needs

  Sir Roger L'Estrange (1800). “Seneca's Morals, by Way of Abstract: To which is Added, a Discourse Under the Title of An After Thought : Adorned with Plates”, p.76

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• Tutors should behave reverently before their pupils.

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  Teaching, Pupils, Should

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• The very soul of the slothful does effectually but lie drowsing in his body, and the whole man is totally given up to his senses.

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  Lying, Men, Soul

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