“Be sober, and to doubt prepense,
These are the sinews of good sense.”
Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet (1788–1856) Scottish metaphysician (1788–1856)
Notes on Reid, from the Fragments of Epicharmus, 255.
“Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.”
— Izaak Walton, book The Compleat Angler
Part I, ch. 2.
The Compleat Angler (1653-1655)
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