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Curiosity in children, is but an appetite for knowledge. One great reason why children abandon themselves wholly to silly pursuits and trifle away their time insipidly is, because they find their curiosity balked, and their inquiries neglected.
No man’s knowledge here can go beyond his experience.
But there is only one thing which gathers people into seditious commotion, and that is oppression.
To love truth for truth’s sake is the principal part of human perfection in this world, and the seed-plot of all other virtues.
Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.
There cannot any one moral Rule be propos’d, whereof a Man may not justly demand a Reason.
Religion, which should most distinguish us from the beasts, and ought most particularly elevate us, as rational creatures, above brutes, is that wherein men often appear most irrational, and more senseless than beasts.
The boundaries of the species, whereby men sort them, are made by men.
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