No man’s knowledge here can go beyond his experience.
JOHN LOCKEIn my opinion, understanding who your target audience is, and what they want, and writing to them (and only them!) is the most important component of being successful as an author.
More John Locke Quotes
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And thus the community perpetually retains a supreme power of saving themselves from the attempts and designs of anybody, even of their legislators, whenever they shall be so foolish, or so wicked, as to lay and carry on designs against the liberties and properties of the subject.
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Affectation is an awkward and forced imitation of what should be genuine and easy, wanting the beauty that accompanies what is natural.
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There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men.
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He that makes use of another’s fancy or necessity to sell ribbons or cloth dearer to him than to another man at the same time, cheats him.
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[Individuals] have a right to defend themselves and recover by force what by unlawful force is taken from them.
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The body of People may with Respect resist intolerable Tyranny.
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So difficult it is to show the various meanings and imperfections of words when we have nothing else but words to do it with.
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Who are we to tell anyone what they can or can’t do?
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Tis true that governments cannot be supported without great charge, and it is fit everyone who enjoys a share of protection should pay out of his estate his proportion of the maintenance of it.
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In the discharge of thy place set before thee the best examples; for imitation is a globe of precepts.
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Memory is the power to revive again in our minds those ideas which after imprinting have disappeared, or have been laid aside out of sight.
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Curiosity in children, is but an appetite for knowledge. The great reason why children abandon themselves wholly to silly pursuits and trifle away their time insipidly is, because they find their curiosity balked, and their inquiries neglected.
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All wealth is the product of labor.
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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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How long have you been holding those words in your head, hoping to use them?
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