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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.

Herbert Spencer

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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Form Government Old Terror
Marriage: A word which should be pronounced ‘mirage’.
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Funny Marriage 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
In science the important thing is to modify and change one’s ideas as science advances.
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Advance Change Ideas Important Science
Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect.
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Determination Intellectual Opinion
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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Arts Human Minister Music Oneself Position Rank Spirit
Who indeed, after pulling off the coloured glasses of prejudice and thrusting out of sight his pet projects, can help seeing the folly of these endeavours to protect men against themselves? A sad population of imbeciles would our schemers fill the world with, could their plans last.
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Color Glass Project Pull See
Be bold, be bold, and everywhere be bold.
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Bold Courage
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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Fingers Man Marriage Relationship Ring
How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.
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Generate Thinking Word
Divine right of kings means the divine right of anyone who can get uppermost.
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Divine Oneself Right
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
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
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
Volumes might be written upon the impiety of the pious.
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Pious Volume Writing
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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