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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.

John Locke

There cannot be greater rudeness than to interrupt another in the current of his discourse.
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Communication Current Rude
Man is not permitted without censure to follow his own thoughts in the search of truth, when they lead him ever so little out of the common road.
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Common Littles Men
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
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
I have spent more than half a lifetime trying to express the tragic moment.
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Half Moments Trying
But there is only one thing which gathers people into seditious commotion, and that is oppression
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Oppression People
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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Brother Spurs Teaching
Don’t tell me what I can’t do!
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Allow People Tell
All rising to great place is by a winding stair; and if there be factions, it is good to side a man’s self whilst he is in the rising, and to balance himself when he is placed.
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Balance Men Self
Revolt is the right of the people
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People Revolt Right
A man may live long, and die at last in ignorance of many truths, which his mind was capable of knowing, and that with certainty.
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Ignorance Knowing Men
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
No man’s knowledge here can go beyond his experience.
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Knowledge Philosophical Science
An excellent man, like precious metal, is in every way invariable; A villain, like the beams of a balance, is always varying, upwards and downwards.
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Balance Integrity Men
The body of People may with Respect resist intolerable Tyranny.
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Body May People

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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