It is evidently equally ...

It is evidently equally foolish to accept probable reasoning from a mathematician and to demand from a rhetorician demonstrative proofs.
It is evidently equally foolish to accept probable reasoning from a mathematician and to demand from a rhetorician demonstrative proofs.

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Change in all things is sweet.
Well begun is half done.
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Happiness depends upon ourselves.