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If We Estimate Dignity By Immediate Usefulness, Agriculture Is Undoubtedly The First And Noblest Science.

Greece Appears To Be The Fountain Of Knowledge; Rome Of Elegance

To Set The Mind Above The Appetites Is The End Of Abstinence, Which One Of The Fathers Observes To Be Not A Virtue, But The Groundwork Of Virtue.

The Hour Of Reformation Is Always Delayed; Every Delay Gives Vice Another Opportunity Of Fortifying Itself By Habit.

To Hear Complaints With Patience, Even When Complaints Are Vain, Is One Of The Duties Of Friendship.