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LETTERS.
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you have forgotten yourself? Still I have an affection for you.—God bless you.
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LETTER LXXVII.
As the parting from you for ever is the most serious event of my life, I will once expostulate with you, and call not the language of truth and feeling ingenuity!
I know the soundness of your understanding—and know that it is impossible for you always to confound the caprices of every wayward inclination with the manly dictates of principle.
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