“1964. If thou wilt have no Difference with thy Friends; sell them not Horses, nor Goods; and buy nothing of them.”

— Thomas Fuller (writer)

Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727)

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British physician, preacher, and intellectual 1654–1734

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