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The time will come to every human being when it must be known how well he can bear to die.
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Distance either of time or place is sufficient to reconcile weak minds to wonderful relations.
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But though it cannot be reasonable not to gain happiness for fear of losing it, yet it must be confessed, that in proportion to the pleasure of possession, will be for some time our sorrow for the loss.
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Though it is evident, that not more than one age or people can deserve the censure of being more averse from learning than any other, yet at all times knowledge must have encountered impediments, and wit been mortified with contempt, or harassed with persecution.
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Born:
September 18, 1709
Died:
December 13, 1784
(aged 75)
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