"All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it."
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"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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"Men in great fortunes are strangers to themselves, and while they are in the puzzle of business, they have no time to tend their health either of body or mind."
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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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"Understanding like the eye; whilst it makes us see and perceive all things, takes no notice of itself; and it requires art and pains to set it at a distance and make it its own subject."
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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."
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"As usurpation is the exercise of power which another has a right to, so tyranny is the exercise of power beyond right, which nobody can have a right to."
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"Error is none the better for being common, nor truth the worse for having lain neglected."
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"Untruth being unacceptable to the mind of man, there is no other defence left for absurdity but obscurity."
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"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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"To be rational is so glorious a thing, that two-legged creatures generally content themselves with the title."
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"God, when he makes the prophet, does not unmake the man."
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"There is no such way to gain admittance, or give defence to strange and absurd Doctrines, as to guard them round about with Legions of obscure, doubtful, and undefin'd Words."
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"Our Business here is not to know all things, but those which concern our conduct."
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"The greatest part cannot know, and therefore they must believe."
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"Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing."
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"Where there is no property there is no injustice."
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"And because it may be too great a temptation to human frailty, apt to grasp at power, for the same persons, who have the power of making laws, to have also in their hands the power to execute them, whereby they may exempt themselves from obedience to the laws they make, and suit the law, both in its making, and execution, to their own private advantage."
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"Whensoever, therefore, the legislative shall transgress this fundamental rule of society, and either by ambition, fear, folly, or corruption, endeavour to grasp themselves, or put into the hands of any other, an absolute power over the lives, liberties, and estates of the people, by this breach of trust they forfeit the power the people had put into the hands... and it devolves to the people, who have a right to resume their original liberty, and... provide for their own safety and security."
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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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