We all decry prejudice, yet are all prejudiced.
HERBERT SPENCERMarriage: a ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.
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Every cause produces more than one effect.
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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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The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality.
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Divine right of kings means the divine right of anyone who can get uppermost.
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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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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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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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Volumes might be written upon the impiety of the pious.
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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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The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.
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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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Society exists for the benefit of its members, not the members for the benefit of society.
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Science is organized knowledge.
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No one can be perfectly free till all are free; no one can be perfectly moral till all are moral; no one can be perfectly happy till all are happy.
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A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.
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