Roger L'Estrange, Fables of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists… (1692)
“ THERE was never any thing gotten by Sensuality and Sloth, either in Matter of Profit or of Reputation, whereas an Active, Industrious Life, carries not only Credit and Advantage, but a Good Conscience also along with it. ”
Roger L'Estrange, Fables of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists… (1692)
“ Men that Set their Hearts only upon the Present, without either Entring into the Reason, or looking forward into the End of Things: Little Dreaming that all this Pomp of Vanity, Plenty, and Pleasure, is but a Fattening of them for the Slaughter. 'Tis the Case of Great and Rich Men in the World ”
