Date: 1787
"Virtue sleeps / While all the finest faculties of mind / Rust, like the iron long unus'd"
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Date: 1788
"Those arts that ornament the mind, as geography, arithmetic, —"
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Date: 1788
"A humane heart always rejoices to soften the distresses of its fellow creatures."
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Date: 1788
"In short, one wants but fingers, and no head for games of chance: and in my thought, such games are utterly unworthy of a thinking man."
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