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- Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.
- An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
- Science in the modern world has many uses; its chief use, however, is to provide long words to cover the errors of the rich.
- Make your free men and guests sit as far as possible at tables on either side, not four here and three there.
- Also see how many quarters of corn you will spend in a week in dispensable bread, how much in alms.
- And if strangers come to supper they shall be served with more according as they have need.