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Proverbial Philosophy

: A Book of Thoughts and Arguments

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“Thou hast seen many sorrows, travel-stained pilgrim of the world, But that which hath vexed thee most, hath been the looking for evil; And though calamities have crossed thee, and misery been heaped on thy head, Yet ills that never happened, have chiefly made thee wretched.”

— Martin Farquhar Tupper, amazon.com

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