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away your strength, + health, + may be, life, in such a worse than useless manner. Why do you care whether you, or another person, has superior brute [underlined] power? If you should lift, or wrestle, with a thousand men, + should triumph over them all, you would not know, + would never [underlined] know, that you was the slowest {underlined] man in the world. when you shall have wasted half your life in such silly trials, some obscure mountain ignoramus beats you out + out in every [unintelligible] in which you may have before excelled. Never strain yourself again too see how much you can lift, or to see how big a bully you can tip over. This is not only vulgar but dangerous. Mr. McVee told me of a smart young man in N. York that ruptured a blood vessel in trying �