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

John Locke

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
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
There cannot any one moral rule be proposed whereof a man may not justly demand a reason.
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Demand May Men
New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.
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Business Philosophy War
Since nothing appears to me to give Children so much becoming Confidence and Behavior, and so raise them to the conversation of those above their Age, as Dancing. I think they should be taught to dance as soon as they are capable of learning it.
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Children Giving Thinking
The mind is furnished with ideas by experience alone
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Ideas Philosophical Philosophy
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
Slavery is so vile and miserable an Estate of Man, and so directly opposite to the generous Temper and Courage of our Nation; that ’tis hardly to be conceived, that an Englishman, much less a Gentleman, should plead for’t.
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Gentleman Men Opposites
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.
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Amendment Liberty Reason Second
Success in fighting means not coming at your opponent the way he wants to fight you.
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Fighting Mean Opponents
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
The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.
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Education Philosophical Wisdom
I have spent more than half a lifetime trying to express the tragic moment.
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Half Moments Trying
Who are we to tell anyone what they can or can’t do?
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Anyone Country People Tell
So difficult it is to show the various meanings and imperfections of words when we have nothing else but words to do it with.
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Difficult Imperfection Writing
Knowledge being to be had only of visible and certain truth, error is not a fault of our knowledge, but a mistake of our judgment, giving assent to that which is not true.
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Errors Giving Mistakes

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