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were I even used disposed to search, could I expect to find
any Lawyer to consult of equal, not to say superior,
Reputation? My Neighbour's Interest for my Money
is as good as any body's else, why should not I
let him have it? All this while this Fortune
to which I trusted had been every penny of it settled
upon the Wife to her separate Use for her Life,
with power to dispose of it by will — she has executed
that Power in Favor of John Miles: my
Neighbour the Widower who was not worth a Groat
makes himself very merry with my £200 and
I hear no more of him. Much Consolation
does it give me when my Money's gone to be
told, that the Instruction is right tho' I am
ruined by the following of it: and tho' what is
there said is in Effect false, yet with a mental
Reservation it is also true. I then begin to ask
whether all the Truths in these Lectures are of that
Sort? and if some are, how am I to know whether
any other which I may pitch upon is not of the
Number? how am I to distinguish those which
ruin me if I believe them, for those which I may
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