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It is an excellent rule to be observed in all disputes, that men should give soft words and hard arguments; that they should not so much strive to vex as to convince each other. - [Argument] Know then, As women owe a duty--so do men. Men must be like the branch and bark to trees, Which doth defend them from tempestuous rage;-- Clothe them in winter, tender them in age, Or as ewes' love unto their eanlings lives; Such should be husbands' custom to their wives. If it appears to them they've stray'd amiss, They only must rebuke them with a kiss; Or cluck them as hens' chickens, with kind call, Cover them under their wing, and pardon all. - [Husbands] Nothing is properly one's duty but what is also one's interest. - [Duty] Obscurity in writing is commonly an argument of darkness in the mind. The greatest learning is to be seen in the greatest plainness. - [Style]
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