"Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge it is thinking that makes what we read ours."
-John Locke
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"Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him.“
-John Locke
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"One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant."
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"The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For in all the states of created beings capable of law, where there is no law, there is no freedom."
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"I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts."
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