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"Sensus Communis, An Essay on the Freedom of Wit and Humour in a Letter to a Friend [collected in Characteristics]"
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"Restoration"
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Date: 1709, 1714
"We polish one another, and rub off our Corners and rough Sides by a sort of amicable Collision. To restrain this, is inevitably to bring a Rust upon Mens Understandings."
preview | full record— Cooper, Anthony Ashley, third earl of Shaftesbury (1671-1713)