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What is a handful of reasonable men against a crowd with stones in their hands?

Quotation recorded by James Wood

Wood, Dictionary of Quotations, ebook 48105, HTML paragraph 27210. Printed attribution: George Eliot. — https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/48105

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In a calm sea every man is a pilot.

Proverb collected by Thomas Preston · Thomas Preston (compiler), A Dictionary of English Proverbs and Proverbial Phrases, proverb 187. — https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/39281/pg39281-images.html#proverb_187

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Make the best of a bad bargain.

Proverb collected by Thomas Preston · Thomas Preston (compiler), A Dictionary of English Proverbs and Proverbial Phrases, proverb 67. — https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/39281/pg39281-images.html#proverb_67

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Zealous men are ever displaying to you the strength of their belief, while judicious men are showing you the grounds of it.

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