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In the discharge of thy place set before thee the best examples; for imitation is a globe of precepts.

John Locke

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
No man’s knowledge here can go beyond his experience.
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Knowledge Philosophical Science
[Individuals] have a right to defend themselves and recover by force what by unlawful force is taken from them.
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Individual Taken Unlawful
What if everything that happened here, happened for a reason?
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Faith Inspiration Reason
There cannot be greater rudeness than to interrupt another in the current of his discourse.
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Communication Current Rude
There cannot any one moral rule be proposed whereof a man may not justly demand a reason.
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Demand May Men
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
All wealth is the product of labor.
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Fruit Labor Philosophical Wealth
The picture of a shadow is a positive thing.
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Positive Things Shadow
The body of People may with Respect resist intolerable Tyranny.
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Body May People
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
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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Awkward Easy Imitation
If we trace the progress of our minds, and with attention observe how it repeats, adds together, and unites its simple ideas received from sensation or reflection, it will lead us farther than at first, perhaps, we should have imagined.
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Ideas Reflection Simple
Truth certainly would do well enough, if she were once left to shift for herself…She is not taught by laws, nor has she any need of force, to procure her entrance into the minds of men.
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Lying Men Procure Truth
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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Cultivated Labour Land Men Property
Error is none the better for being common, nor truth the worse for having lain neglected.
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Common Errors Neglect

In the discharge of thy place set before thee the best examples; for imitation is a globe of precepts.

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