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'Tis certain that this man has an estate of fifty thousand / livres, and seems to be a person of very great accomplishments. / But, then, if he's a wizard, are wizards so devoutly given as / this man seems to be? In short, I could make neither head nor / tail on't / The Count de Gabalis, Translation affixed to the / second edition of the "Rape of the Lock. "
Of all the weaknesses which little men rail against, there is none that they are more apt to ridicule than the tendency to believe. And of all the signs of a corrupt heart and a feeble head, the tendency of incredulity is the surest.