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John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.

Thomas Hobbes 1588-1679 John Bartlett

 
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    For words are wise men’s counters,—they do but reckon by them; but they are the money of fools.
          The Leviathan. Part i. Chap. iv.
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    No arts, no letters, no society, and which is worst of all, continual fear and danger of violent death, and the life of man solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.
          The Leviathan. Part i. Chap. xviii.