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Most Men Expose Themselves In Battle Enough To Save Their Honor, Few Wish To Do So More Than Sufficiently, Or Than Is Necessary To Make The Design For Which They Expose Themselves Succeed.

Decency Is The Least Of All Laws, But Yet It Is The Law Which Is Most Strictly Observed.

However Glorious An Action In Itself, It Ought Not To Pass For Great If It Be Not The Effect Of Wisdom And Intention.

There Are Few Virtuous Women Who Are Not Bored With Their Trade.

Our Wisdom Is No Less At Fortune's Mercy Than Our Wealth.