"The words of a man's mouth are as deep waters, and the well-spring of wisdom [is] as a flowing brook."-- _Ib._, xviii, 4.

"A fool's mouth is his destruction, and his lips are the snare of his soul."-- _Ib._, xviii, 7.
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The old maxim recorded by Bacon, "_Loquendum ut vulgus, sentiendum ut sapientes_,"-- "We should speak as the vulgar, but think as the wise," is not to be taken without some limitation.

For whoever literally speaks as the vulgar, shall offend vastly too much with his tongue, to have either the understanding of the wise or the purity of the good.

In all untrained and vulgar minds, the ambition of speaking well is but a dormant or very weak principle.