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by Charles William Eliot

A man being sometimes more generous when he has but a little money than when he has plenty, perhaps thro' fear of being thought to have but little.

truth, sincerity and integrity in dealings between man and man were of the utmost importance to the felicity of life;

There are croakers in every country, always boding its ruin.

should have mentioned before, that, in the autumn of the preceding year, I had form'd most of my ingenious acquaintance into a club of mutual improvement, which we called the Junto; we met on Friday evenings. The rules that I drew up required that every member, in his turn, should produce one or more queries on any point of Morals, Politics, or Natural Philosophy, to be discuss'd by the company; and once in three months produce and read an essay of his own writing, on any subject he pleased.

and this industry, visible to our neighbors, began to give us character and credit;