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John Locke was an English philosopher who lived from 1632 to 1704.
* He is considered one of the most important philosophers of the Enlightenment.
* His most famous work is "An Essay Concerning Human Understanding."
* Locke's ideas about government and religion had a profound impact on the American Revolution.
* He is considered one of the founding fathers of liberalism.
* Locke was born in Wrington, Somerset, England.
* He studied at Oxford University.
* He worked as a physician and a diplomat.
* He died in High Laver, Essex, England.

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

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

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The only defense against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.

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To love truth for truth's sake is the principal part of human perfection in this world, and the seed-plot of all other virtues.

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