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An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Book 4, ch. 20, "Of Wrong Assent, or Error" (1690) - Locke, John | WIST Quotations
Earthly minds, like mud walls, resist the strongest batteries: and though, perhaps, sometimes the force of a clear argument may make some impression, yet they nevertheless stand firm, and keep out the enemy, truth, that would captivate or disturb them. Tell a man passionately in love that he is jilted;…