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Affectation is an awkward and forced imitation of what should be genuine and easy, wanting the beauty that accompanies what is natural.

John Locke

Memory is the power to revive again in our minds those ideas which after imprinting have disappeared, or have been laid aside out of sight.
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Ideas Memories Sight
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
It is one thing to persuade, another to command; one thing to press with arguments, another with penalties.
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Argument Command Penalties
A sound mind in a sound body is a short but full description of a happy state in this world.
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Get Happiness Health Well
The mind is furnished with ideas by experience alone
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Ideas Philosophical Philosophy
Since the great foundation of fear is pain, the way to harden and fortify children against fear and danger is to accustom them to suffer pain.
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Children Pain Suffering
What if everything that happened here, happened for a reason?
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Faith Inspiration Reason
Fashion for the most part is nothing but the ostentation of riches.
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Fashion Philosophical Riches
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
Moral laws are set as a curb and restraint to these exorbitant desires, which they cannot be but by rewards and punishments, that will over-balance the satisfaction any one shall propose to himself in the breach of the law.
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Balance Law Punishment
In the beginning, all the world was America.
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America Patriotic World
The greatest part of mankind … are given up to labor, and enslaved to the necessity of their mean condition; whose lives are worn out only in the provisions for living.
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Given Mean Provision
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
But there is only one thing which gathers people into seditious commotion, and that is oppression
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Oppression People
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

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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