Date: November 28, 1783
"Our Maker has given us this faithful internal monitor [the conscience], and if you always obey it, you will always be prepared for the end of the world, or for a more certain event, which is death."
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Date: 1785
"Games played with the ball, and others of that nature, are too violent for the body, and stamp no character on the mind."
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