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And I took this precaution, though at so disturbed a time, and when all opportunities of
acting were so sudden and so brief at the suggestion of some divine providence, as I said
before, and not of my own accord, or of my own wisdom; taking care, in the first instance,
that no one should be able to recollect of the danger to the republic, or to any individual,
only as much as he pleased; and in the second place, that no one should be able at any time to
find fault with that information, or to accuse us of having given credit to it rashly; and
lastly, that no one should ever put any questions to me, or seek to learn anything from my
private journals, lest I might be accused of either forgetting or remembering too much, and
lest any negligence of mine should be thought discreditable, or lest any eagerness on my part
might seem cruel.
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