“Reader, — This Enchiridion, I present thee with, is the Fruit of Solitude: A School few care to learn in, tho' None Instructs us better. Some Parts of it are the Result of serious Reflection: Others the Flashings of Lucid Intervals: Writ for private Satisfaction, and now publish'd for an Help to Human Conduct.”

— William Penn

The Preface
Fruits of Solitude (1682)

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English real estate entrepreneur, philosopher, early Quaker… 1644–1718

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