Old forms of government finally grow so oppressive that they must be thrown off even at the risk of reigns of terror.
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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Science is organized knowledge.
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Be bold, be bold, and everywhere be bold.
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All socialism involves slavery.
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We do not commonly see in a tax a diminution of freedom, and yet it clearly is one.
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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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The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.
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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.
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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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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 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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Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.
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Every cause produces more than one effect.
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What a cage is to the wild beast, law is to the selfish man.
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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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Divine right of kings means the divine right of anyone who can get uppermost.
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