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Thomas Hobbes Quotes: By how much one man has more experience of things past, than another, by so much also he is more prudent, and his expectations the seldomer fail him.
         

By how much one man has more experience of things past, than another, by so much also he is more prudent, and his expectations the seldomer fail him.


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