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 well, and many think they are well when they are near death, 
 unconscious of approaching fever, or of the abscess ready to form itself. 
  
 176. Cromwell was about to ravage all Christendom; the royal family was 
 undone, and his own for ever established, save for a little grain of sand 
 which formed in his ureter. Rome herself was trembling under him; but this 
 small piece of gravel having formed there, he is dead, his family cast down, 
 all is peaceful, and the king is restored. 
  
 177. Three hosts. Would he who had possessed the friendship of the King of 
 England, the King of Poland, and the Queen of Sweden, have believed he would 
 lack a refuge and shelter in the world? 
  
 178. Macrobius: on the innocents slain by Herod. 
  
 179. When Augustus learnt that Herod's own son was amongst the infants under 
 two years of age, whom he had caused to be slain, he said that it was better 
 to be Herod's pig than his son. Macrobius, Saturnalia, ii. 4. 
  
 180. The great and the humble have the same misfortunes, the same griefs, 
 the same passions; but the one is at the top of the wheel, and the other 
 near the centre, and so less disturbed by the same revolutions. 
  
 181. We are so unfortunate that we can only take pleasure in a thing on 
 condition of being annoyed if it turn out ill, as a thousand things can do, 
 and do every 
  
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  * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)