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more beautiful and striking. Indeed, all I can say to you at 

 the end of these lectures (for we must come to an end at one 

 time or other) is to express a wish that you may, in your 

 generation, be fit to compare to a candle; that you may, 

 like it, shine as lights to those about you; that, in all your 

 actions, you may justify the beauty of the taper by making 

 your deeds honorable and effectual in the discharge of 

 your duty to your fellow-men. 



