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To be rational is so glorious a thing, that two-legged creatures generally content themselves with the title.

John Locke

Curiosity in children is but an appetite for knowledge.
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Appetite Children Curiosity
Fashion for the most part is nothing but the ostentation of riches.
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Fashion Philosophical Riches
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
Don’t tell me what I can’t do!
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Allow People Tell
Is it worth the name of freedom to be at liberty to play the fool?
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Freedom Names Play
What if everything that happened here, happened for a reason?
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Faith Inspiration Reason
Curiosity in children, is but an appetite for knowledge. The great reason why children abandon themselves wholly to silly pursuits and trifle away their time insipidly is, because they find their curiosity balked, and their inquiries neglected.
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Children Curiosity Silly
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
If you punish him for what he sees you practise yourself, he… will be apt to interpret it the peevishness and arbitrary imperiousness of a father, who, without any ground for it, would deny his son the liberty and pleasure he takes himself.
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Father Liberty Son
Any one reflecting upon the thought he has of the delight, which any present or absent thing is apt to produce in him, has the idea we call love.
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Delight Ideas Reflecting Upon
Where there is no desire, there will be no industry.
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Desire Effort Labor
Let not men think there is no truth, but in the sciences that they study, or the books that they read.
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Book Men Thinking
That which parents should take care of… is to distinguish between the wants of fancy, and those of nature.
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Care Fancy Parent
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
Thus parents, by humouring and cockering them when little, corrupt the principles of nature in their children, and wonder afterwards to taste the bitter waters, when they themselves have poison’d the fountain.
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Children Parent Water
There cannot be greater rudeness than to interrupt another in the current of his discourse.
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Communication Current Rude

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