“All Politeness is owing to Liberty. We polish one another, and rub off our Corners and rough Sides by a sort of amicable Collision. To restrain this, is inevitably to bring a Rust upon Mens Understandings.”

Vol. 1, pp. 39-40; "Sensus Communis".
Characteristicks of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times (1711)

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