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Date: 1771
"BIAS, or BIASS, in a general sense, the inclination or bent of a person's mind to one thing more than another."
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Date: 1771
"That is, let not great examples, or authorities, browbeat they reason into too great a diffidence fo thyself: thyself so reverence, as to prefer the native growth of thy own mind to the richest import from abroad; such borrowed riches make us poor."
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