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• Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up childre
  now I have six children and no theories. -- John Wilmot, Earl of Rocheste...
• Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children.
  Now, I have three children and no theories. John Wilmot, Earl of Rocheste...
• An excuse is often substituted for reason.
• But Dulness sits at Helm, and in this Age, Governs on Councils, Pulpits, and the Stage
  Here a dull _Councellor_ ador'd we see, And there a Poet, duller yet than he, With beardless Bishop, dullest of the three, 'Tis dangerous to think-- For who by thinking tempts his jealous Fate, Is straight arraign'd as Traytor to the State, And none that come within the Verge of Sense, Have to Preferment now the least Pretence....
• Because is a womans reason. -- John Lyly
• A man who cannot reason is a fool, a man who will not reason is a bigot, and a man who dare not reason is a slave.
  -- William Drummond...
• The elephant is never won with anger. -- Earl of Rocheste
• Reason deceives use often; conscience never. -- Rousseau