Is it worth the name of freedom to be at liberty to play the fool?
JOHN LOCKEAll wealth is the product of labor.
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As much land as a man tills, plants, improves, cultivated, and can use the product of, so much is his property. He by his labour does, as it were, enclose it from the common.
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Though the familiar use of things about us take off our wonder, yet it cures not our ignorance.
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Since nothing appears to me to give Children so much becoming Confidence and Behavior, and so raise them to the conversation of those above their Age, as Dancing. I think they should be taught to dance as soon as they are capable of learning it.
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Government has no other end, but the preservation of property.
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In the beginning, all the world was America.
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That which parents should take care of… is to distinguish between the wants of fancy, and those of nature.
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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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He that will make good use of any part of his life must allow a large part of it to recreation.
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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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When the sacredness of property is talked of, it should be remembered that any such sacredness does not belong in the same degree to landed property.
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There are two sides, two players. One is light, the other is dark.
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To be rational is so glorious a thing, that two-legged creatures generally content themselves with the title.
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Curiosity should be as carefully cherish’d in children, as other appetites suppress’d.
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The great question which, in all ages, has disturbed mankind, and brought on them the greatest part of their mischiefs … has been, not whether be power in the world, nor whence it came, but who should have it.
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Words, in their primary or immediate signification, stand for nothing but the ideas in the mind of him who uses them.
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