Roger L'Estrange was an English author and translator, renowned for his translation of the Bible into English, which was widely used during the 17th and 18th centuries. He was also a playwright and poet, contributing to the literary scene of his era.
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Source: Fables of Aesop and Other Eminent Mythologists, with Morals and Reflections and Fables and Stories Moralized: Being a Second Part of the Fables of Aesop
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“He that has the Longer Sword, shall never want, either Lawyers, or Divines to Defend his Claim.”
Source: Fables of Aesop and Other Eminent Mythologists, with Morals and Reflections and Fables and Stories Moralized: Being a Second Part of the Fables of Aesop
“A universal applause is seldom less than two thirds of a scandal”
“Wickedness may prosper for a while.”
Source: Fables of Aesop ... By Sir Roger L'Estrange ... The Fifth Edition Corrected
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“It is a way of calling a man a fool when no attention is given to what he says.”
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“Some natures are so sour and ungrateful that they are never to be obliged.”
Source: Fables of Aesop and Other Eminent Mythologists: With Morals and Reflections
Source: Fables of Æsop and other eminent mythologists: with morals and reflections
“Partiality in a parent is unlucky; for fondlings are in danger to be made fools.”
“There is no creature so contemptible but by resolution may gain his point.”
“Pretences go a great way with men that take fair words and magisterial looks for current payment.”
“There is no opposing brutal force to the stratagems of human reason.”
Source: Fables of Aesop and Other Eminent Mythologists: With Morals and Reflections
“He that upon a true principle lives, without any disquiet of thought, may be said to be happy.”
Source: Fables of Æsop and other eminent mythologists: with morals and reflections
Source: Fables of Æsop and other eminent mythologists: with morals and reflections
Source: Fables of Aesop and Other Eminent Mythologists: With Morals and Reflections
“Men indulge those opinions and practices that favor their pretensions.”
“The most insupportable of tyrants exclaim against the exercise of arbitrary power.”
Source: Fables of Æsop and other eminent mythologists: with morals and reflections
Source: Fables of Æsop and other eminent mythologists: with morals and reflections
“Humor is the offspring of man; it comes forth like Minerva, fully armed from the brain.”
Source: Fables of Æsop and other eminent mythologists: with morals and reflections
“The lowest boor may laugh on being tickled, but a man must have intelligence to be amused by wit.”