Anfæ Sapienti datæ, unde fiat Sapientior,
Malo unde Bonus, Bono unde Melior.

Hints which may poffibly ferve to make a Wife Man
yet Wifer, a Bad Man Good, and a Good Man
Better.

LONDON,

Printed by J. H. for Philip Monckton at the Star
in St. Paul's Church-yard. M DCC VII.

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T may be of good use, if not neces fary to the great and wife Ends of Religion and Virtue, for which we were made by Almighty God, and for the more prudent Conduct of our felves here, to have always about us and as it were at hand, fome Fix'd unquestionable Aphorifms, or Rules applicable to the most ufual Occurrences of Life.

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