Wisdom's better than money: or, The whole art of knowledge and the art to know men. In four hundred sentencious essays, political and moral. Written by a late person of quality; and left as a legacy to his son.

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Wisdom's better than money: or, The whole art of knowledge and the art to know men. In four hundred sentencious essays, political and moral. Written by a late person of quality; and left as a legacy to his son.
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Quarles, Francis, 1592-1644.
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London :: printed for W. Chandeler, in the Pourcy; and Tho. Scott, in Cranbone-Street, Leicester-Fields,
1698.
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"Wisdom's better than money: or, The whole art of knowledge and the art to know men. In four hundred sentencious essays, political and moral. Written by a late person of quality; and left as a legacy to his son." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A56847.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 30, 2024.

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MAX. 14.

Beware of Drunkenness, lest all good men beware of thee: Where Drunkenness reigns, there Reason is an Exul, Virtue a Stranger, God an Enemy; Blasphemy is Wit, Oaths are Rhetorick, and Secrets are Pro∣clamations. Noah discovered that in one hour, drunk, which

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sober, he kept secret Six hun∣dred Years.

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