WIST Quotations https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Wed, 22 Apr 2026 18:57:03 +0000 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/little-w-little-box-60x60.jpg faithlessness – WIST Quotations https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 Fuller, Thomas (1654) -- Introductio ad Prudentiam, Vol. 1, # 948 (1725) https://wist.info/fuller-thomas-1654/80470/ https://wist.info/fuller-thomas-1654/80470/#respond Wed, 26 Nov 2025 16:49:30 +0000 Dave https://wist.info/?p=80470 Never trust a malicious Man upon the Account that thou hast done him good Offices: For thou hast but fed a Dragon that will devour thee, if ever thou comest within his reach.


Thomas Fuller (1654-1734) English physician, preacher, aphorist, writer
Introductio ad Prudentiam, Vol. 1, # 948 (1725)
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Fuller repeated this item as # 2443 in his second volume (1727), slightly altered:

Never trust a malicious Man upon the Account that thou hast done him good Offices. For thou hast but fed a Dragon, that will devour thee if ever thou comest within the Reach of his Claws.
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