Garments that have once one rent in them are subject to be torn on every nail, and glasses … - Joseph Hall

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It is the nature of the writer to question the validity of his world and yet rely on his senses to describe it. From what other tension can great literature be born?

Joseph Hall

Garments that have once one rent in them are subject to be torn on every nail, and glasses that are once cracked are soon broken; such is man's good name once tainted with just reproach.

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Moderation is the silken string running through the pearl chain of all virtues.

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