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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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The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.

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There cannot be greater rudeness than to interrupt another in the current of his discourse.

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To prejudge other men's notions before we have looked into them is not to show their darkness but to put out our own eyes.

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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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Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.

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A sound mind in a sound body, is a short, but full description of a happy state in this World: he that has these two, has little more to wish for; and he that wants either of them, will be little the better for anything else.

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The dread of evil is a much more forcible principle of human actions than the prospect of good.

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Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing.

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I attribute the little I know to my not having been ashamed to ask for information, and to my rule of conversing with all descriptions of men on those topics that form their own peculiar professions and pursuits.

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Philosopher

Born: August 29th, 1632

Died: October 28th, 1704

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