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You shall find, that there cannot be a greater spur to the attaining what you would have the eldest learn, and know himself, than to set him upon teaching it his younger brothers and sisters.

John Locke

In the beginning, all the world was America.
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America Patriotic World
No man’s knowledge here can go beyond his experience.
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Knowledge Philosophical Science
It is one thing to persuade, another to command; one thing to press with arguments, another with penalties.
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Argument Command Penalties
Curiosity in children is but an appetite for knowledge.
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Appetite Children Curiosity
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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Community Design Liberty
Since the great foundation of fear is pain, the way to harden and fortify children against fear and danger is to accustom them to suffer pain.
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Children Pain Suffering
So that, in effect, religion, which should most distinguish us from beasts, and ought most peculiarly to elevate us, as rational creatures, above brutes, is that wherein men often appear most irrational, and more senseless than beasts themselves.
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Beast Creature Men Rational
In the discharge of thy place set before thee the best examples; for imitation is a globe of precepts.
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Example Imitation
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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Marketing Men Use
Things of this world are in so constant a flux, that nothing remains long in the same state.
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Long Philosophical World
Thus parents, by humouring and cockering them when little, corrupt the principles of nature in their children, and wonder afterwards to taste the bitter waters, when they themselves have poison’d the fountain.
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Children Parent Water
I find every sect, as far as reason will help them, make use of it gladly: and where it fails them, they cry out, It is a matter of faith, and above reason.
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Matter Religion Use
Don’t tell me what I can’t do!
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Allow People Tell
He that will have his son have respect for him and his orders, must himself have a great reverence for his son.
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Order Respect Son
Though the familiar use of things about us take off our wonder, yet it cures not our ignorance.
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Ignorance Use Wonder
There cannot be greater rudeness than to interrupt another in the current of his discourse.
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Communication Current Rude

You shall find, that there cannot be a greater spur to the attaining what you would have the eldest learn, and know himself, than to set him upon teaching it his younger brothers and sisters.

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