I got some very old books from my grandma and have rarely opened them because I am afraid of damaging them. They were published in 1799 and since my son-in-law, Scott is an English teacher and a true lover of literature and familiar with these particular books, I offered them to him. I am sending them to him tomorrow and got them out to get them ready and actually opened one of them this evening. I feel like maybe I have missed a wealth of treasure. I found this gem in one of them... "I have often thought if the minds of men were laid open, we should see but little difference between that of the wise man and that of the fool. There are infinite reveries, numberless extravagancies, and a perpetual train of vanities that pass through both. The greatest difference is that the first knows how to pick and cull this thoughts for conversation by suppressing some and communicating others while the other lets them all indifferently fly out in words. --The Spectator--Published November 17, 1771. Interestingly, I have been reading in PROVERBS everyday and in Proverbs 17, it says, "Even a fool, when he holds his peace, is counted wise."
