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1824. March 20.3
Greece J. Be. to J. Bo.
3.

or complaint to others: for that here & there
and every where if according to their own account
so many people were against them,
a question that would naturally be put to
them, is where there is such a multitude against
two, is it not more likely that the two should
be in the wrong than the multitude? We hear
your story: but the distance puts it altogether
out of our power to hear theirs: Under these circumstances,
how upon your own showing
comes it to any other conclusion that it is
you who have been most to blame?

But if concessions must be made,
the better the grace with which they are
made, the better it will be for those who make
them, as well as every body else: I know how
easy it is to give such advice — how great the
difficulty of taking it: but the greater the difficulty,
the greater the merit: and the more,
having the approbation which, to a man
who can display such merit, will be given
him by his own conscience. Any
fool is equal to the giving of such advice
as I have been giving; but wise indeed is
every man who is capable of making due
profit by it.

J.B. to J.B. There ends my
just as it comes into my head this moment:
But should I have to do it into Day French, the
powers above will, it is hoped, give me the grace
to shorten it.

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Date_1	1824-03-20	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	012	Main Headings
Folio number	248	Info in main headings field	greece j. be to j. bo.
Image	001	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d3 / e3
Penner	john flowerdew colls	Watermarks
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Notes public	letter 3076, vol. 11	ID Number	4309
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