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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.

Herbert Spencer

Volumes might be written upon the impiety of the pious.
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Pious Volume Writing
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
Our lives are universally shortened by our ignorance.
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Ignorance Live Ourselves Universe
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
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
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
A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.
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Average Compose Ignorance Jury Man
Government is essentially immoral.
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Essential Government Immoral One Liner
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
Be bold, be bold, and everywhere be bold.
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Bold Courage
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
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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Freedom Happiness Oneself Perfection
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
People are beginning to see that the first requisite to success in life is to be a good animal.
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Animal Beginning Goodness People See Success
All socialism involves slavery.
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One Liner Politics Slave Social
We do not commonly see in a tax a diminution of freedom, and yet it clearly is one.
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Clear Freedom Oneself Tax

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