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Wednesday, November 25, 2015

Post #1953

That discipline which corrects the baseness of worldly passion; fortifies the heart with virtuous principles; enlightens the mind with useful knowledge and furnishes it with enjoyment from within itself, is of more consequence to real felicity, than all the provision we can make of the goods of fortune.
—Hugh Blair

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A deadly viper once bit a hole snipe's hide; But 'twas the viper, not the snipe, that died.

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