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“"Understanding being nothing else, but conception caused by Speech."”

“"For he that hath strength enough to protect all, wants not sufficiency to oppresse all."”

“...in statu naturae Mensuram juris esse Utilitatem.”

“No man's error becomes his own Law; nor obliges him to persist in it.”

“For Prudence, is but Experience; which equal time, equally bestows on all men, in those things they equally apply themselves unto.”

“The same, without such opinion, DESPAIRE.”

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