"Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge it is thinking that makes what we read ours."
-John Locke
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"Our incomes are like our shoes if too small, they gall and pinch us but if too large, they cause us to stumble and to trip.“
-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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"All men are liable to error and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it."
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"The reason why men enter into society is the preservation of their property."
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