To my question, how he could, at his age, have mastered so many
attainments, his reply was, that with his three teachers, "every thing
might be learned, common sense alone excepted, the peculiar and rarest
gift of Providence. These three teachers were, _Necessity_, _Habit_, and
_Time_. At his starting in life, _Necessity_ had told him, that if he
hoped to _live_ he must _labour_; _Habit_ had turned the labour into an
_indulgence_; and _Time_ gave every man an hour for every thing, unless
he chose to yawn it away."--_Salathiel._
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