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If memoranda
have the same force and authority, and are arranged with the same care as accounts,
where is the need of making an account-book? of making out careful lists? of keeping a
regular order? of making a permanent record of old writings? But if we have adopted the
custom of making account-books, because we put no trust in flying memoranda, shall that
which, by all individuals, is considered unimportant and not to be relied on, be
considered important and holy before a judge?
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