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To those, who with the writer, believe that ignorance is the parent of vice, and that the civilized is preferable to the savage state, our situation, in the above particulars, demands the gratitude of every heart.
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Daggett argues that ignorance leads to vice, and thus, the educational advantages of Connecticut should be appreciated.
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On similar principles a wise people regard the conduct of other nations, and are solemnly admonished by their example.
My fellow citizens human nature is the same here as in France--Then before you give ear to the songs of enchantment Count the Cost--Before you sell your birthright for a mess of pottage Count the Cost.
Such is the constant termination of such revolutions, and shall we claim to be an exception?
Let not then the projector persuade us to adopt his theories with proofs of their danger thus glaring before our eyes.
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