The courtiers manual oracle, or, The art of prudence written originally in Spanish by Baltazar Gracian, and now done into English.

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Title: The courtiers manual oracle, or, The art of prudence written originally in Spanish by Baltazar Gracian, and now done into English.
Author: Gracián y Morales, Baltasar, 1601-1658.
Publication: London :: Printed by M. Flesher, for Abel Swalle ...,; 1685.
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Subject terms: Courts and courtiers.; Maxims.
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MAXIME CCLXI.

Not to continue a Foppery.

Some make an engagement of their mistakes: when they have once be∣gun to fail, they think they are concer∣ned in honour to continue. Their heart accuses their fault, and their mouth defends it. Whence it happens, that if they have been taxed for inadvertency, when they began the foppery, they pass for fools, when they continue it. An im∣prudent proneness, and a rash resolution, impose no obligation. Thus, some con∣tinue their first foolery, and make their

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silliness the more remarkable, by a vani∣ty in appearing constant impertinents. See the Maxime 214.