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- A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of.
- A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of; it heightens…
- Exercise ferments the humors, casts them into their proper channels, throws off redundancies, and helps nature in those secret distributions, without which the body cannot…
- Novelty serves us for a kind of refreshment, and takes off from that satiety we are apt to complain of in our usual and ordinary…
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