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Stronger Lessons.

STRONGER LESSONS.

Have you learn'd lessons only of those who admired you, and  
 were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learn'd great lessons from those who reject you,  
 and brace themselves against you? or who treat you with  
 contempt, or dispute the passage with you?
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