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The tree that has just taken root, the strength of one man may be able to extract; but leave it to remain thus for a time, and the machinery of a purchase may fail to eradicate it: the leak at the dam-head might have been stopped with a plug, while, now it has a vent, we cannot ford its current on an elephant.
When you dam up a stream of water, as soon as the dam is full, as much water must run over the dam-head as if there was no dam at all.
The higher and stronger the dam-head, the greater must be the difference in the depth of water behind and before it.
As the water, however, must always be deeper behind the dam-head than before it, so the quantity of gold and silver which these restraints detain in Spain and Portugal, must, in proportion to the annual produce of their land and labour, be greater than what is to be found in other countries.
Open the flood-gates, and there will presently be less water above, and more below the dam-head, and it will soon come to a level in both places.
And any private affair that you wish to keep secret, do not divulge to anybody; for, though such a person has your confidence, none can be so true to your secret as yourself: Silence is safer than to communicate the thought of thy mind to anybody, and to warn him, saying: Do not divulge it, O silly man! confine the water at the dam-head, for once it has a vent thou canst not stop it.
One afternoon Barton met me on the dam-head. "Come on in swimming with me ... I have something to talk with you about," he said. We swam around and talked, as nonchalantly as two other men would have done, sitting in their club. "How would you like to work for me again?" "What is it you want me to work at?" "I need a cook for my nature restaurant ... can you cook?" I thought.
He took their little tin pails and followed them around the old dam-head and up a sandy gorge, along a clear thread of water that trickled into Lovely Creek just above the mill. They came to the gravelly hill where the stream took its source from a spring hollowed out under the exposed roots of two elm trees.
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