“Wisdom denotes the pursuing of the best Ends by the best Means.”
An Inquiry into the Original of our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue (1725), Treatise I, Sect. V
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“I do the very best I know how, the very best I can, and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.”

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