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not yet awake, do you think then that he cared any —
thing about the matter when the moon shove to kiss him,
for he was thrown in to a deep sleep, by her, that she
might kiss him. for how can a man be Anxious about any
thing, when he does not think? you have sleep the
representation of Death before you, and you are invested
with it every night: and dost thou doubt, whether there is
sense or no in death? when you see there is none in its —
Model and Epitome, Sleep. banish therefore that Old Womans
Opinion, that 'tis a sad thing to come to an untimely death.
how untimely? before the usual time? no, nature gave
us the use of life as of Money; not to be received at any
fixed time. why do you complain then, at her recalling
it at Pleasure? for you received it upon those Conditions.
the same people think if a child dies young, it must be —
born patiently: but if in the cradle they should not —
complain. but Nature has exacted what she had given
more rigidly from this, he has not tasted the Enjoyments
of life says somebody: but he already hoped for great
things, which he had begun to Enjoy. but in other —
things, it is thought best to enjoy part, rather than
none: why otherwise in life? tho' Callimachus does
not say amiss, that Priam, much of tener wept than
Troilus. but the good fortune of those who die in an
advanced age is praised. why? for I think if people

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Identifier: | JB/537/112/002 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 537.
Date_1	1761-01-27	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	537	Main Headings	Tusculan Questions
Folio number	112	Info in main headings field
Image	002	Titles
Category	Copy/fair sheet	Number of Pages
Recto/Verso		Page Numbering
Penner	Jeremy Bentham	Watermarks
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