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... There Is Much Truth In The Italian Saying, 'make Yourselves Sheep, And The Wolves Will Eat You.'

I Have So Much Faith In The General Government Of The World By Providence That I Can Hardly Conceive A Transaction Of Such Momentous Importance [as The Framing Of The Constitution] ... Should Be Suffered To Pass Without Being In Some Degree Influenced, Guided, And Governed By That Omnipotent, Omnipresent, And Beneficent Ruler In Whom All Inferior Spirits Live And Move And Have Their Being.

He That Pays For Work Before It's Done, Has But A Pennyworth For Two Pence.

A Flatterer Never Seems Absurd: The Flatter'd Always Takes His Word.

Get What You Can, And What You Get Hold; 'tis The Stone That Will Turn All Your Lead Into Gold.