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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
John Locke
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John Locke
Age: 72 †
Born: 1632
Born: August 29
Died: 1704
Died: October 28
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It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of the truth.
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Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge it is thinking that makes what we read ours.
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A sound mind in a sound body is a short but full description of a happy state in this world.
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Whenever legislators endeavor to take away and destroy the property of the people, or to reduce them to slavery under arbitrary power, they put themselves into a state of war with the people, who are thereupon absolved from any further obedience.
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