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In 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.

John Locke

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
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
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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Leisure Recreation Use
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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Difficult Imperfection Writing
Whoever uses force without Right … puts himself into a state of War with those, against whom he uses it, and in that state all former Ties are canceled, all other Rights cease, and every one has a Right to defend himself, and to resist the Aggressor.
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Canceled Force Rights Ties War
Crooked things may be as stiff and unflexible as streight: and Men may be as positive and peremptory in Error as in Truth.
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Men Science Truth
Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.
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Fortitude Philosophical Support
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
The Church which taught men not to keep faith with heretics, had no claim to toleration.
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Atheism Church Men
There is no such way to gain admittance, or give defence to strange and absurd Doctrines, as to guard them round about with Legions of obscure, doubtful, and undefin’d Words.
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Doctrine Giving Way
It is labour indeed that puts the difference on everything.
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Day Differences Labor May
Curiosity in children is but an appetite for knowledge.
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Appetite Children Curiosity
Nothing is in the intellect that was not first in the senses.
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Firsts Intellect Senses
To be rational is so glorious a thing, that two-legged creatures generally content themselves with the title.
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Reason Titles Two
In 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.
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Book Successful Writing
[H]e that thinks absolute power purifies men’s blood, and corrects the baseness of human nature, need read the history of this, or any other age, to be convinced to the contrary.
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Blood Men Thinking

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