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"Examples would indeed be excellent things were not people so modest that none will set, and so vain that none will follow them."
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"It is well for us that we are born babies in intellect. Could we understand half what mothers say and do to their infants, we should be filled with a conceit of our own importance, which would render us insupportable through life."
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