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A lively principle of this kind would alſo overcome indolence; for I have known people waſteful and penurious at the ſame time; but the waſtefulneſs was to ſpare themſelves trouble, and others only felt the effects of their penury, to make the balance even.
Women too often confine their love and charity to their own families. They fix not in their minds the precedency of moral obligations, or make their feelings give way to duty. Good-will to all the human race ſhould dwell in our boſoms, nor ſhould love to individuals induce us to violate this firſt of duties, or make us ſacrifice the in-
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