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• Isn't your pants' zipper supposed to be in the front?
• All men, among themselves, are by nature equal. The inequality we now discern hath its spring from the civil law.
• What reason is there that he which laboreth much, and, sparing the fruits of his labor, consumeth little, should be more charged…
• There are very few so foolish that they had not rather govern themselves than be governed by others.
• Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech.
• A man's conscience and his judgment is the same thing; and as the judgment, so also the conscience, may be erroneous.
• The world is governed by opinion.
• It's my turn, to take a leap into the darkness!
• Life in the state of nature is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.
• A free man is he that, in those things which by his strength and wit he is able to do, is not…
• Prudence is but experience, which equal time equally bestows on all men in those things they equally apply themselves unto.
• By this we may understand, there be two sorts of knowledge, whereof the one is nothing else but sense, or knowledge original…

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