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62 659. Would you persuade, speak of interest, not of reason.

660.* Write injuries in dust, benefits in marble.

661.* Write with the learned, pronounce with the vulgar.

662. Why does the blind man's wife paint herself?

663.* You can bear your own faults, and why not a fault in your wife.

664. You may be too cunning for one, but not for all.

665. You may delay, but time will not.

666. You may give a man an office, but you cannot give him discretion.

667. You may talk too much on the best subjects.

668. You may sometimes be much in the wrong, in owning your being in the right.

659.* Youth is pert and positive, age modest and doubting; so ears of corn when young and light, stand bolt upright, but hang their heads when weighty, full, and ripe.

670.* You will be careful, if you are wise; how you touch men's religion, or credit, or eyes.