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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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As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears. – John Locke

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The Bible is one of the greatest blessings bestowed by God on the children of men. It has God for its author salvation for its end, and truth without any mixture for its matter. It is all pure. – John Locke

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In certain trying circumstances, urgent circumstances, desperate circumstances, profanity furnishes a relief denied even to prayer. – Mark Twain

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Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords. – Robert Louis Stevenson

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One can say of language that it is potentially the only human home, the only dwelling place that cannot be hostile to man. – John Berger

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The language of truth is unadorned and always simple. – Marcellinus Ammianus

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