L Estrange Quotes

We make mistakes the gratuitous blessings of heaven for the fruits of our industry. - L Estrange

'Tis better that a man's own works, than that another man's words should praise him. - L Estrange

Some read books only with a view to find fault, while others read only to be taught; the former are like venomous spiders, extracting a poisonous quality, where the latter, like the bees, sip out a sweet and profitable juice. - L Estrange

Of all injustice, that is the greatest which goes under the name of law; and of all sorts of tyranny the forcing of the letter of the law against the equity, is the most insupportable. - L Estrange

It may serve as a comfort to us, in all our calamities and afflictions, that he that loses anything and gets wisdom by it is a gainer by the loss. - L Estrange

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