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Some things must be good in themselves, else there could be no measure whereby to lay out good and evil.

Benjamin Whichcote, Anthony Tuckney (1753). “Moral and religious aphorisms [collected by J. Jeffery from the papers of B. Whichcote]. Now re-publ., with additions, by S. Salter. To which are added, Eight letters: which passed between dr. Whichcote, and dr. Tuckney”, p.72
Some things must be good in themselves, else there could be no measure whereby to lay out good and evil.