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"To know ourselves, is agreed by all to be the most useful Learning; the first Lessons, therefore, given us ought to be on that Subject."
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"Of all the Beauties, it is that which attracts the most lasting Admiration, gives the greatest Charm to every thing we say or do, and renders us amiable in every Station, and thro' every Stage of Life."
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"Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting."

"At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment."

"All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world."

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"When men and woman die, as poets sung, his heart's the last part moves, her last, the tongue."
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