Excerpt from The Traveller's Oracle, or Maxims for Locomotion, Vol. 2: Containing Precepts for Promoting the Pleasures and Hints for Preserving the Health of Travellers
Those Carriages which cost least, are not always the Cheapest, but Often turn out, in the end, to be the Dearest.
Of Chariots, that appear to be equally handsome to a common Eye, which has not been taught to look minutely into the several parts of their machinery One may be cheap at 2501 and Another may be dear at not withstanding, the Vender Of the latter may get more Profit than the Builder of the former.
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