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To be thrown upon one's own resources is to be cast into the very lap of fortune for our faculties then undergo a development and display an energy of which they were previously unsusceptible.
To be thrown upon one's own resources is to be cast into the very lap of fortune for our faculties then undergo a development and display an energy of which they were previously unsusceptible.
Approximate author period: c. 1748 AD · early modern
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- Benjamin Franklin
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- Approximate author period: c. 1748 AD · early modern
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