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Fashion for the most part is nothing but the ostentation of riches.

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
But there is only one thing which gathers people into seditious commotion, and that is oppression
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Oppression People
Children should from the beginning be bred up in an abhorrence of killing or tormenting any living creature; and be taught not to spoil or destroy any thing, unless it be for the preservation or advantage of some other that is nobler.
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Children Killing Taught
This is to think, that men are so foolish, that they take care to avoid what mischiefs may be done them by pole-cats, or foxes; but are content, nay, think it safety, to be devoured by lions.
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Cat Furnish Men Pole Thinking
We are born with faculties and powers capable almost of anything, such at least as would carry us farther than can easily be imagined: but it is only the exercise of those powers, which gives us ability and skill in any thing, and leads us towards perfection.
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Exercise Giving Skills
Though the water running in the fountain be every ones, yet who can doubt, but that in the pitcher is his only who drew it out?
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Doubt Running Water
Where there is no desire, there will be no industry.
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Desire Effort Labor
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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Degrees Landed Talk
I thought that I had no time for faith nor time to pray, then I saw an armless man saying his Rosary with his feet.
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Feet Men Prayer Saw Time
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
In the beginning, all the world was America.
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America Patriotic World
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
Revolt is the right of the people
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People Revolt Right
Error is none the better for being common, nor truth the worse for having lain neglected.
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Common Errors Neglect
No peace and security among mankind-let alone common friendship-can ever exist as long as people think that governments get their authority from God and that religion is to be propagated by force of arms.
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Government Long Thinking
Curiosity should be as carefully cherish’d in children, as other appetites suppress’d.
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Cherish Children Curiosity

Fashion for the most part is nothing but the ostentation of riches.

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