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These Names of Virtues with their Precepts were\par
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\item {\sl Temperance.} Eat not to Dulness. Drink not to Elevation.
\item {\sl Silence.} Speak not but what may benefit other or yourself.
Avoid trifling Conversation.\par
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My intention being to acquire the {\sl Habitude} of all these Virtues, 

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