Ocupation: Writer
Life: May 15, 1689 - August 21, 1762
Birthday: May 15
Death: August 21
I have all my life been on my guard against the information conveyed by the sense of hearing -- it being one of my earliest observations, the universal inclination of humankind is to be led by the ears, and I am sometimes apt to imagine that they are given to men as they are to pitchers, purposely that they may be carried about by them.
topic: Men, Ears, May, Inclination