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We should have a great fewer disputes in the world if words were t

We should have a great fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves. – John Locke

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All mankind… being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions. – John Locke

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To love our neighbor as ourselves is such a truth for regulating human society, that by that alone one might determine all the cases in social morality. – John Locke

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Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself. – John Locke

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A definition is the enclosing a wilderness of idea within a wall of words. – Samuel Butler (1835-1902), Note-Books

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To have another language is to possess a second soul. – Charlemagne

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