Books: FROM BEN'S LETTERS

To Jane Franklin:

Sister, farewell, and remember that modesty, as it makes the most homely virgin amiable and charming, so the want of it renders the most perfect beauty disagreeable and odious. But when that brightest of female virtues shines among other perfections of body and mind in the same person, it makes the woman more lovely than an angel.

To Madame d'Hardancourt Brillon:

(A friend.)

People commonly speak of Ten Commandments. I have been taught that there are twelve. The first was, Increase and multiply and replenish the Earth. The twelfth is, A new Commandment I give unto you, that ye love one another....

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