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On the Treatment of Servants.
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consequence, think theſe affairs more inſignificant than they really are; for the warmth with which we engage in any buſineſs increaſes its importance, and our not entering into them has the contrary effect.
The behaviour of girls to ſervants is generally in extremes; too familiar or haughty. Indeed the one often produces the other, as a check, when the freedoms are troubleſome.
We cannot make our ſervants wiſe or good, but we may teach them to be decent and orderly, and order leads to ſome degree of morality.
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