To flesh your friend's curiosity, and then endeavour to leave him with a hûc usque, is exposing your faculty of reticence to an unnecessary trial. (Henry Taylor)

To flesh your friend's curiosity, and then endeavour to leave him with a hûc usque, is exposing your faculty of reticence to an unnecessary trial.

Henry Taylor

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