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Table Talk. Wisdom.

Wise men say nothing in dangerous times.

Table Talk. Wisdom.

[195:1] See Bacon, page [171].

[195:2] Behold, my son, with how little wisdom the world is governed.—Oxenstiern (1583-1654).

God never had a church but there, men say,

The Devil a chapel hath raised by some wyles.[196:1]