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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: such a prohibition ought to fill them with disdain.
Claude Adrien Helvétius Treatise on Man: His Intellectual Faculties and His Education V1
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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: such a prohibition ought to fill them with disdain.
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Claude Adrien Helvétius

Treatise on Man: His Intellectual Faculties and His Education V1

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