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Reading is to the mind, what exercise is to the body. As by the one, health is preserved, strengthened, and invigorated: by the other, virtue (which is the health of the mind) is kept alive, cherished, and confirmed.

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The utmost extent of man’s knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.
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On you, my lord, with anxious fear I wait, and from your judgment must expect my fate.
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