“It is a way of calling a man a fool when no attention is given to what he says.”
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Famous Roger L'Estrange Quotes
Source: Fables of Aesop and Other Eminent Mythologists: With Morals and Reflections
“Pretences go a great way with men that take fair words and magisterial looks for current payment.”
Source: Fables of Æsop and other eminent mythologists: with morals and reflections
“Men indulge those opinions and practices that favor their pretensions.”
“Humor is the offspring of man; it comes forth like Minerva, fully armed from the brain.”
“The lowest boor may laugh on being tickled, but a man must have intelligence to be amused by wit.”