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John Locke Quotes: Crooked things may be as stiff and unflexible as streight: and Men may be as positive and peremptory in Error as in Truth.
         

Crooked things may be as stiff and unflexible as streight: and Men may be as positive and peremptory in Error as in Truth.


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