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Don’t tell me what I can’t do!

John Locke

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  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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  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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  Children generally hate to be idle; all the care then is that their busy humour should be constantly employed in something of use to them

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  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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  Knowledge is grateful to the understanding, as light to the eyes.

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  He that will have his son have respect for him and his orders, must himself have a great reverence for his son.

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  Truth certainly would do well enough, if she were once left to shift for herself…She is not taught by laws, nor has she any need of force, to procure her entrance into the minds of men.

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

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  In my opinion, understanding who your target audience is, and what they want, and writing to them (and only them!) is the most important component of being successful as an author.

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  It is labour indeed that puts the difference on everything.

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  All wealth is the product of labor.

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