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Quote by Robert South
It is the work of fancy to enlarge, but of judgment to shorten and

It is the work of fancy to enlarge, but of judgment to shorten and contract and therefore this must be as far above the other as judgment is a greater and nobler faculty than fancy or imagination. – Robert South

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The grateful person, being still the most severe exacter of himself, not only confesses, but proclaims, his debts. – Robert South

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God expects from men something more than at such times, and that it were much to be wished for the credit of their religion as well as the satisfaction of their conscience that their Easter devotions would in some measure come up to their Easter dress. – Robert South

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A child who has never fantasized about having other parents is seriously lacking in imagination. – Fred G. Gosman

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