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The best plan is, as the common proverb has it, to profit by the folly of others.[720:1]

Natural History. Book xviii. Sect. 31.

Always act in such a way as to secure the love of your neighbour.[720:2]

Natural History. Book xviii. Sect. 44.

It is a maxim universally agreed upon in agriculture, that nothing must be done too late; and again, that everything must be done at its proper season; while there is a third precept which reminds us that opportunities lost can never be regained.

Natural History. Book xviii. Sect. 44.

The bird of passage known to us as the cuckoo.

Natural History. Book xviii. Sect. 249.

Let not things, because they are common, enjoy for that the less share of our consideration.