This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1856 edition. Excerpt: ...as by use and practice they sometimes prove. For the general business of the world lies, for the most parts, in routines and forms, of which there are none so exact observers as those who understand nothing else to divert them, as carters use to blind their fore-horses on both sides, that they may see ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1856 edition. Excerpt: ...as by use and practice they sometimes prove. For the general business of the world lies, for the most parts, in routines and forms, of which there are none so exact observers as those who understand nothing else to divert them, as carters use to blind their fore-horses on both sides, that they may see only forward, and so keep the road the better; and men that aim at a mark use to shut one eye, that they may see the surer with the other. If fools are not notorious, they have far more persons to deal with of their own elevation (who understand one another better) than they have of those that are above them, which renders them fitter for many businesses than wiser men, and they believe hemselves to be so for all. For no man ever thought himself a fool that was one, so confident does their ignorance naturally render them; and confidence is no contemptible qualification in the management of human affairs. And as blind men have secret artifices and tricks to supply that defect, and find out their ways, which those who have their eyes, and are but hoodwinked, are utterly unable to do; so fools have always little crafts and frauds in all their transactions, which wiser men would never have thought upon; and by those they frequently arrive at very great wealth, and as great success in all their tindertakings. For all fools are but feeble and impotent knaves that have as strong and vehement inclinations to all sorts of dishonesty as the most notorious of those engineers, but want abilities to put them in practice; and as they are always found to bf the most obstinate and intractable people to be prevailed upon by reason or conscience, so they are as easy to submit to their superiors, that is knaves, by whom they are always observed to be governed, ..
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