If there is but little water in the stream, it is the fault, not of the channel, but of the source.
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Saint Jerome. Letter to Presbyter Marcus. c. 379, sect. 2.
Saint Jerome. Letter to Presbyter Marcus. c. 379, sect. 2.
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Augustine of Hippo. Confessiones [Confessions]. c. 398, bk. 8, ch. 7.
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Spinoza, Baruch. Ethica, Ordine Geometrico Desmonstrata [Ethics, Demonstrated in Geometrical Order]. 1677, pt. 3, prop. 26, note.
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Franklin, Benjamin [published as Richard Saunders]. Poor Richard's Almanack. Philadelphia, 1733.
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