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Error is none the better for being common, nor truth the worse for having lain neglected.

John Locke

No man’s knowledge here can go beyond his experience.
JOHN LOCKE

Knowledge Philosophical Science
Whoever uses force without Right … puts himself into a state of War with those, against whom he uses it, and in that state all former Ties are canceled, all other Rights cease, and every one has a Right to defend himself, and to resist the Aggressor.
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Canceled Force Rights Ties War
Curiosity should be as carefully cherish’d in children, as other appetites suppress’d.
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Cherish Children Curiosity
A king is a mortal god on earth, unto whom the living God hath lent his own name as a great honour; but withal told him, he should die like a man, lest he should be proud, and flatter himself that God hath with his name imparted unto him his nature also.
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Kings Men Names
Who are we to tell anyone what they can or can’t do?
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Anyone Country People Tell
Curiosity in children is but an appetite for knowledge.
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Appetite Children Curiosity
Is it worth the name of freedom to be at liberty to play the fool?
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Freedom Names Play
Fashion for the most part is nothing but the ostentation of riches.
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Fashion Philosophical Riches
There cannot be greater rudeness than to interrupt another in the current of his discourse.
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Communication Current Rude
If all be a Dream, then he doth but dream that he makes the Question; and so it is not much matter that a waking Man should answer him.
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Dream Men Waking
So that, in effect, religion, which should most distinguish us from beasts, and ought most peculiarly to elevate us, as rational creatures, above brutes, is that wherein men often appear most irrational, and more senseless than beasts themselves.
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Beast Creature Men Rational
I have spent more than half a lifetime trying to express the tragic moment.
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Half Moments Trying
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
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
I have no reason to suppose that he, who would take away my Liberty, would not when he had me in his Power, take away everything else.
JOHN LOCKE

Amendment Liberty Reason Second
In the beginning, all the world was America.
JOHN LOCKE

America Patriotic World

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