Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge it is thinking that makes what we read ours.
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.
- I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.
- Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him.
- No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.
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