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• He who loveth a book will never want a faithful friend, a wholesome counsellor, a cheerful companion, or an effectual comforter.
• Let us consider that swearing is a sin of all others peculiarly clamorous, and provocative of Divine judgment.
• We should allow others' excellences, to preserve a modest opinion of our own.
• Every ear is tickled with the sweet music of applause.
• The reading of books, what is it but conversing with the wisest men of all ages and all countries.
• Facetiousness is allowable when it is the most proper instrument of exposing things apparently base and vile to due contempt.
• Because men believe not in Providence, therefore they do so greedily scrape and hoard. They do not believe in any reward for…
• I pass by that it is very culpable to be facetious in obscene and smutty matters.
• Even private persons in due season, with discretion and temper, may reprove others, whom they observe to commit sin, or follow bad…
• If men are wont to play with swearing anywhere, can we expect they should be serious and strict therein at the bar…
• No man speaketh, or should speak, of his prince, that which he hath not weighed whether it will consist with that veneration…
• That in affairs of very considerable importance men should deal with one another with satisfaction of mind, and mutual confidence, they must…

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