Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

John Locke
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  1. We are like chameleons, we take our hue and the color of our moral character, from those who are around us.

  2. For where is the man that has incontestable evidence of the truth of all that he holds, or of the falsehood of all he condemns; or can say that he has examined to the bottom all his own, or other men's opinions? The necessity of...

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