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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.

Herbert Spencer

The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality.
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Health Moral Preservation Responsibility
The fact disclosed by a survey of the past that majorities have been wrong must not blind us to the complementary fact that majorities have usually not been entirely wrong.
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Fact Majority Past Survey Wrong
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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Death Live Moments Place
Volumes might be written upon the impiety of the pious.
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Pious Volume Writing
Marriage: A word which should be pronounced ‘mirage’.
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Funny Marriage Word
A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.
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Average Compose Ignorance Jury Man
Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.
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Adjustment Life Relationship
Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect.
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Determination Intellectual Opinion
What a cage is to the wild beast, law is to the selfish man.
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Cage Law Man Selfish
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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End Life Love Wealth
How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.
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Generate Thinking Word
Those who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the poetry by which they are surrounded.
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Poetry Pursue Science Surround
The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.
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Effect Fools Man Result World
The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.
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Action Education Goal Greatness Knowledge
When a man’s knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has the greater will be his confusion.
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Confusion Greatness Himself Knowledge Man Order
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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Argument Communism Fatal Nature Ourselves Theory

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