If there is any one lesson that we all of us need to have impressed upon us more thoroughly and more constantly than any other, it is that each minute of our lives is of supreme value, and that we are committing a sin when we allow a single minute to go to waste.
Washington warns against wasting time, highlighting its supreme value in our lives.
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This tenderness and sympathy on the part of those held in bondage was a result of their kindly and generous nature.
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