It is hard to personate and ...

It is hard to personate and act a part long; for where Truth is not the bottom, Nature will always be endeavoring to return, and will peep and betray herself one time or other.
It is hard to personate and act a part long; for where Truth is not the bottom, Nature will always be endeavoring to return, and will peep and betray herself one time or other.
 John Tillotson

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To be able to bear provocation is an argument of great reason, and to forgive it of a great mind.
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