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What can be more honorable than to have courage enough to execute the commands of reason and conscience,--to maintain the dignity of our nature, and the station assigned us?

Jeremy Collier

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Jeremy Collier
Age: 76 †
Born: 1650
Born: January 1
Died: 1726
Died: January 1
Literary Critic
Priest
Theatre Critic
Writer
County of Cambridge
Honor
Commands
Courage
Station
Honorable
Nature
Stations
Reason
Maintain
Enough
Command
Dignity
Assigned
Conscience
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