"Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge it is thinking that makes what we read ours."
-John Locke
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"To love our neighbor as ourselves is such a truth for regulating human society, that by that alone one might determine all the cases in social morality.“
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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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