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  • In like manner We who see but a few coggs in one Wheel of the great Machine of the Universe, can make no right judgment of particular Phoenomena in Nature.

    John Adams diary 1, 18 November 1755 - 29 August 1756 1961

  • Miller, thou art my neighbour; and therein charity holds my hands; but me - thinks yon, having a water-gap of your own, you may do as other millers do, grind your grift at home, knock your coggs into your own mill; you ihall not coggwith her.

    A Select Collection of Old Plays 1780

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