“849. Be as you would seem to be.”

— Thomas Fuller (writer)

Compare Poor Richard's Almanack (1744) : What you would seem to be, be really.
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)

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British physician, preacher, and intellectual 1654–1734

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