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To limit the press is to insult a nation; to prohibit reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves.
Claude Adrien Helvetius
Claude Adrien Helvetius
Born: Jan 26, 1715
Died: Dec 26, 1771

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Fools, Reading, Nation, Prohibit, Books, Press, Insult, Limit, Either, Declare, Certain, Inhabitants, Slaves

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