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Genre:
"Prose"
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Gender of Author:
"Unknown"
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Work title:
"An Index to Mankind: or Maxims Selected from the Wits of all Nations "
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Literary Period:
"Age of Sensibility"
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"Eighteenth Century"
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"Long Eighteenth Century"
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Metaphor Category:
"Mineral"
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Date: 1765
"What Sculpture is to a Block of Marble, Education is to a human Soul."
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Date: 1765
"And as the richest Diamond cannot shoot forth its Lustre, wanting the Lapidary's Skill; so will the latent Virtues of the noblest Mind be bury'd in Obscurity if not call'd forth by Precept, and the Rules of good Manners."
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