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  1. One day, about noon, going towards my boat, I was exceedingly surprised with the print of a man's naked foot on the shore, which was very p…
  2. I have often thought of it as one of the most barbarous customs in the world, considering us as a civilized and a Christian country, that w…
  3. I have since often observed, how incongruous and irrational the common temper of mankind is, especially of youth, to that reason which ough…
  4. The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond; and must be polished, or the lustre of it will never appear. And 'tis manifest, that a…
  5. He bade me observe it, and I should always find that the calamities of life were shared among the upper and lower part of mankind; but that…
  6. A woman well bred and well taught, furnished with the additional accomplishments of knowledge and behaviour, is a creature without comparis…
  7. When kings the sword of justice first lay down, They are no kings, though they possess the crown. Titles are shadows, crowns are empty thin…
  8. For I cannot think that God Almighty ever made them so delicate, so glorious creatures; and furnished them with such charms, so agreeable a…

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