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well-tried

«And how are you going to make education easy? You might as well try to build an athlete by keeping him in a hammock with cream puffs and beer.»
«Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.»
«Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.»
«The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.»
«One might as well try to ride two horses moving in different directions, as to try to maintain in equal force two opposing or contradictory sets of desires.»
«I bear a burden that might well tryMen that do all by rule,And what can IThat am a wandering-witted foolBut pray to God that He easeMy great responsibilities?»