“Preference of vice to virtue, a manifest wrong judgment.”

— John Locke , book An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

Book II, Ch. 21, sec. 70
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1689)

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English philosopher and physician 1632–1704

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