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He warns the heads of parties against believing their own lies.

He warns the heads of parties against believing their own lies.

John Arbuthnot
Lying, Party, Believe
'The Art of Political Lying' (1712) p. 19

Among the innumerable Footsteps of Divine Providence to be found in the Works of Nature, there is a very remarkable one to be observed in the exact Balance that is maintained, between the Numbers of Men and Women; for by this means it is provided, that the Species may never fail, nor perish, since every Male may have its Female, and of a proportionable Age.

John Arbuthnot
Mean, Men, Numbers
"The Correspondence of Dr. John Arbuthnot".

I believe the calculation of the quantity of probability might be improved to a very useful and pleasant speculation, and applied to a great many events which are accidental, besides those of games; only these cases would be infinitely more confused, as depending on chances which the most part of men are ignorant of.

John Arbuthnot
Confused, Believe, Men
John Arbuthnot (1770). “Miscellaneous Works of the Late Dr. Arbuthnot”, p.260

Hocus was an old cunning attorney. The words of consecration, "Hoc est corpus," were travestied into a nickname for jugglery, as "Hocus-pocus." - John Richard Green, A Short History of the English People, 1874. see Charles Macklin.

John Arbuthnot
People, Historical, Nicknames

The dumpling-eaters are a race sprung partly from the old Epicurean and partly from the Peripatetic Sect; they were first brought into Britain by Julius Caesar; and finding it a Land of Plenty, they wisely resolved never to go home again.

John Arbuthnot
Home, Race, Land

The dumpling is indeed of more ancient institution, and of foreign origin; but alas, what were those dumplings? Nothing but a few lentils sodden together, moisten'd and cemented with a little seeth'd fat.

John Arbuthnot
Together, Littles, Ancient

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