Fruit Machines

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    It is, I fear, but a vain show of fulfilling the heathen precept, “Know thyself,” and too often leads to a self-estimate which will subsist in the absence of that fruit by which alone the quality of the tree is made evident.
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    If men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men, and become merely machines for eating and for earning money.
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