Roger L'Estrange, Fables of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists… (1692)
“ For if One Man's Faults could Discharge Another Man of his Duty,there would be no longer any Place left for the Common Offices of Society. To Conclude, We have our Failings, Every Mothers Child of us, and the Improvidence of my Neighbour must not make Me Inhumane. ”
Roger L'Estrange, Fables of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists… (1692)
“ The Moral Preaches Industry, and Beats down Sloth, and Shews that Alter-wit is Nothing Worth. It must be an Industrious Youth that provides against the Inconveniencies, and Necessities of Old Age; And He that Fools away the One, must either Beg or Starve in the Other. ”
Roger L'Estrange, Fables of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists… (1692)
“ We are in the First Place, to Consult our Own Necessities, but we are Then to Consider in the Second Place, that the Necessities of our Neighbours have a Christian Right to a Part of what we have to Spare. For the Common Offices of Humanity, are as much Duties of Self-Preservation, as what Every Individual Contributes to it's Own Well-Being. ”
