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"Blair, Hugh (1718-1800)"
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"Age of Sensibility"
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"Eighteenth Century"
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Date: 1783
"A maxim, or moral saying, properly enough receives this form; both because it is supposed to be the fruit of meditation, and because it is designed to be engraven on the memory, which recalls it more easily by the help of such contrasted expressions."
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