"I know not whether the remark is to our honour or otherwise, that the lessons of wisdom have never such a power over us, as when they are wrought into the heart, through the ground-work of a story which engages the passions: Is it that we are like iron, and must first be heated before we can be wrought upon?"
Sermon V, The Prodigal Son [from The Sermons of Mr. Yorick. Vol. III.]
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