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He that will give himself to all manner of ways to get money may be rich; so he that lets fly all he knows or thinks may by chance be satirically witty. Honesty sometimes keeps a man from growing rich, and civility from being witty.
He that will give himself to all manner of ways to get money may be rich; so he that lets fly all he knows or thinks may by chance be satirically witty. Honesty sometimes keeps a man from growing rich, and civility from being witty.
Approximate author period: c. 1619 AD · renaissance
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- John Selden
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- Approximate author period: c. 1619 AD · renaissance
author lifetime midpoint (1584–1654)
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- Book of Wise Sayings (1893) (1893 AD)
Saying 470 · printed source label: Selden · entry translator not specified
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