A naturall foole that could never learn by heart the order … - Thomas Hobbes

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A naturall foole that could never learn by heart the order of numerall words, as one, two, and three, may observe every stroak of the Clock, and nod to it, or say one, one, one; but can never know what houre it strikes.

Thomas Hobbes

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Thomas Hobbes (5 April 1588 – 4 December 1679) was an English philosopher, whose 1651 book Leviathan established the agenda for nearly all subsequent Western political philosophy.

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Alternative Names: Hobbes • Thomas Hobbsted • Thomas Hobbes of Malflutry

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