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From Quotes by William Godwin
- Every man has a certain sphere of discretion which he has a right to expect shall not be infringed by his neighbours. This right flows…
- But the watchful care of the parent is endless. The youth is never free from the danger of grating interference.
- As long as parents and teachers in general shall fall under the established rule, it is clear that politics and modes of government will educate…
- Whenever government assumes to deliver us from the trouble of thinking for ourselves, the only consequences it produces are those of torpor and imbecility.
- One of the prerogatives by which man is eminently distinguished from all other living beings inhabiting this globe of earth, consists in the gift of…
- The philosophy of the wisest man that ever existed, is mainly derived from the act of introspection.
- Books have been handed down from generation to generation, as the true teachers of piety and the love of God, that represent him as so…
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