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Children had rather be making of Tools and Instruments of Play; Shaping, Drawing, Framing, and Building, &c. than getting some Rules of Propriety of Speech by Heart.

—Education

William
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William Penn

WORK: Some Fruits of Solitude
The aphorisms of the founder of Pennsylvania published anonymously so as not to be reimprisoned for disloyalty. From the Harvard Classics, Vol. I, Part 3.
WRITINGS ABOUT PENN: “William Penn, and his No Cross No Crown.” and “More purely Literary Efforts: Penn’s Some Fruits of Solitude”
Sections by Edward Grubb from the Cambridge History of English Literature.

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