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On the Effects of Education warriors, extricate his feet. We saw no other remedy but to abandon our baggage, arms, and clothes, whereby we saved our lives.

Employ an experienced man in important affairs, who is able to ensnare a fierce lion with his lasso. A youth, though he may have a strong arm and elephant-body, his joints will snap asunder for fear in contact with a foe. The issue of a battle is known by a tried man before the contest, like the solution of a legal question to a learned man.