"The ladies men admire, I've heard, Would shudder at a wicked word. Their candle gives a single light; They'd rather stay at home at night. They do not keep awake till three, Nor read erotic poetry. They never sanction the impure, Nor recognize an overture. They shrink from powders and from paints ... So far, I've had no complaints.''
The late Dr. Alan Dundes, Professor of Folklore and Anthropology at the University of California Berkeley writes on and on and on about things that come in threes.
Read The Number Three In American Culture
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Adam Smith, in his important book The Theory of Moral Sentiments, wrote
that excellent people have three primary virtues: prudence, justice, and
benevolence, in that order. Each of them is essential to the others and
to the living of a full life in society.
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