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Rh Let a man seek pleasure everywhere except in himself!
 * Let a woman seek happiness everywhere
 * except in herself! (Say! what real happiness
 * have you had one single time through your whole
 * life?)

Let the limited years of life do nothing for the limitless
 * years of death! (Say! what do you suppose
 * death will do, then?)



just maturing youth! You male or female! Remember the organic compact of These States, Remember the pledge of the Old Thirteen thenceforward
 * to the rights, life, liberty, equality of
 * man,

Remember what was promulged by the founders, ratified
 * by The States, signed in black and white by
 * the Commissioners, and read by Washington at
 * the head of the army,

Remember the purposes of the founders,—Remember
 * Washington;

Remember the copious humanity streaming from every
 * direction toward America;

Remember the hospitality that belongs to nations and
 * men; (Cursed be nation, woman, man, without
 * hospitality!)

Remember, government is to subserve individuals,