What a cage is to the wild beast, law is to the selfish man.
HERBERT SPENCERA jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.
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Our lives are universally shortened by our ignorance.
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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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A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.
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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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The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.
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Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts – as the one which, more than any other, ministers to the human spirit.
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A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.
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Divine right of kings means the divine right of anyone who can get uppermost.
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How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.
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The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.
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We all decry prejudice, yet are all prejudiced.
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The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality.
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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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Marriage: A word which should be pronounced ‘mirage’.
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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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