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It May Be Observed In General That The Future Is Purchased By The Present. It Is Not Possible To Secure Distant Or Permanent Happiness But By The Forbearance Of Some Immediate Gratification. This Is So Evidently True With Regard To The Whole Of Our Existence That All Precepts Of Theology Have No Other Tendency Than To Enforce A Life Of Faith; A Life Regulated Not By Our Senses But By Our Belief; A Life In Which Pleasures Are To Be Refused For Fear Of Invisible Punishments, And Calamities Sometimes To Be Sought, And Always Endured, In Hope Of Rewards That Shall Be Obtained In Another State.

To A People Warlike And Indigent, An Incursion Into A Rich Country Is Never Hurtful.

Love Is The Wisdom Of The Fool And The Folly Of The Wise.

What Is Read Twice Is Usually Remembered More Than What Is Once Written.

A Lexicographer, A Writer Of Dictionaries, A Harmless Drudge.