"The great end of prudence is to give cheerfulness to those hours which splendor cannot gild, and acclamation cannot exhilarate."

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Above all things endeavor to breed them up the love of virtue, and that holy plain way of it which we have lived in, that the world in no part of it get into my family. I had rather they we're homely than finely bred as to outward behavior; yet I love sweetness mixed with gravity, and cheerfulness tempered with sobriety.

— William Penn