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Most prospects in life are marred by the shuffling worldly wisdom of men, who, forgetting that they cannot serve God and mammon, endeavour to blend contradictory things. -- If you wish to make your son rich, pursue one course -- if you are only anxious to make him virtuous, you must take another; but do not imagine that you can bound from one road to the other without losing your way.*


* See an excellent essay on this subject by Mrs. Barbauld, in Miscellaneous Pieces in Prose.

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