The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality.
HERBERT SPENCERHero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.
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We do not commonly see in a tax a diminution of freedom, and yet it clearly is one.
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Marriage: a ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.
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Those who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the poetry by which they are surrounded.
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Old forms of government finally grow so oppressive that they must be thrown off even at the risk of reigns of terror.
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The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future.
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An argument fatal to the communist theory, is suggested by the fact, that a desire for property is one of the elements of our nature.
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A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.
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The behavior of men to the lower animals, and their behavior to each other, bear a constant relationship.
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The Republican form of government is the highest form of government: but because of this it requires the highest type of human nature, a type nowhere at present existing.
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Education has for its object the formation of character.
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Every cause produces more than one effect.
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Love is life’s end, but never ending. Love is life’s wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love’s life’s reward, rewarded in rewarding.
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People are beginning to see that the first requisite to success in life is to be a good animal.
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Marriage: A word which should be pronounced ‘mirage’.
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In science the important thing is to modify and change one’s ideas as science advances.
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