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John Locke on Writing

1632–1704 England

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He that uses his words loosely and unsteadily will either not be minded or not understood.

An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1689)

We should have a great many fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves.

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