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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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Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge it is thinking that makes what we read ours. – John Locke

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Our incomes are like our shoes if too small, they gall and pinch us but if too large, they cause us to stumble and to trip. – John Locke

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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. – John Locke

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