“Sir, you must be all caution and no fear, and you'll find true what our old friend Archimedes said some while ago.
: If a man do but keep himself sober and stout,
The world as he'd have it must needs turn about.
:* Letter to John Stansfield (c. 1717), as quoted in "How to move the World" in The Poems of John Byrom (1894), p. 9”

—  John Byrom

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