Mere Flimflam Stories, And Nothing But Shams

Don't Put All Your Eggs In One Basket.

Get Out Of Harms Way.

It Requires A Long Time To Know Anyone.

It Is One Thing To Write As Poet And Another To Write As A Historian: The Poet Can Recount Or Sing About Things Not As They Were, But As They Should Have Been, And The Historian Must Write About Them Not As They Should Have Been, But As They Were, Without Adding Or Subtracting Anything From The Truth.

A Man Prepared Has Half Fought The Battle.