1b
Title
1b
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Notes
The unattributed maxim had been floating around multiple miscellanies in the 18th century. The passage has since been attributed to George Shelley. Possibly copied from the miscellany collection, "The Rule of Life: In select Sentences, Collected from The Greatest Authors, Ancient and Modern."
Transcription
prefer solid sense to wit, never study to be diverting with out being useful; let no jest intrude upon good manners; nor say any thing the may offend modesty
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Citation
“1b,” Reading the Commonplace, accessed October 4, 2023, http://readingthecommonplace.cassidyholahan.com/cms/items/show/71.