Nobody should trust their virtue with necessity, the force of which is never known till it is felt, and it is therefore one of the first duties to avoid the temptation of it.
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Solitude begets whimsies.
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We are educated in the grossest ignorance, and no art omitted to stifle our natural reason if some few get above their nurses' instructions, our knowledge must rest concealed and be as useless to the world as gold in the mine.
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