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Instead of exhorting you to augment your charity, I will rather utter an exhortation, or at least a supplication, that you may not abuse your charity by misapplying it.
Cotton Mather
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Cotton Mather
Age: 65 †
Born: 1663
Born: February 12
Died: 1728
Died: February 13
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