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54. ACTIONS, Rule for.—

Whenever you
are to do a thing, though it can never be
known but to yourself, ask yourself how you
would act were all the world looking at you,
and act accordingly. [5]
To Peter Carr. Washington ed. i, 396.
(Ps., 1785)

 
[5]

Peter Carr was the young nephew of Jefferson.——Editor.