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Brompton near Chatham
July 8th 1783.

Hon:d Sir

I write now, only that, upon your weekly visit
to town you may find a letter to thank you for your
favour of the 3d instant. It gives me the highest satisfaction
to see you so well reconciled to the miscarriage. When I see
you uneasy, I never can be easy myself: and when I see you
satisfied, I never can be much otherwise. As to the rest I have
two recipes for content: one is to look always forward and never backward
the other is to look to the bright side of things, and never
to the dark. By the facility I have acquired of practicing these
two lessons, I think I have made myself a tolerable good practical philosopher: but on this occasion, I must confess, you
have got the start of me. The disappointment does not now sit
nor even did it from the first fall heavy on me, because I never suffer'd
myself to entertain any thing more than a very faint expectation
of success, and because no disappointment ever could for these
many years, or ever can sit heavy on me: but you
are

Identifier: | JB/539/367/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 539.
Date_1	1783-07-08	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	539	Main Headings
Folio number	367	Info in main headings field
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Penner	Jeremy Bentham	Watermarks
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