Jonathan Edwards :
When I am giving the relation of a thing, remember to abstain from altering either in the matter or manner of speaking, so much, as that, if every one, afterwards, should alter as much, it would at last come to be properly false.
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Manners
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Abstinence
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Age and Aging
Gift it
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