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John Locke on Mother's Day

1632–1704 England

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I am sure, zeal or love for truth can never permit falsehood to be used in the defence of it.

The Reasonableness of Christianity (1695)

Whoever goes beyond this measure of assent, it is plain receives not the truth in the love of it; loves not truth for truth's sake, but for some other bye-end.

An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1689)

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