Date: 1790
"We are afraid to put men to live and trade each on his own private stock of reason; because we suspect that this stock in each man is small, and that the individuals would do better to avail themselves of the general bank and capital of nations, and of ages."
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Date: 1790
"If you were thus destitute of mental funds, the proceeding is in its natural course."
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