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People are beginning to see that the first requisite to success in life is to be a good animal.

Herbert Spencer

Be bold, be bold, and everywhere be bold.
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Bold Courage
Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.
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Freedom Human Strong Worship
What a cage is to the wild beast, law is to the selfish man.
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Cage Law Man Selfish
Education has for its object the formation of character.
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Character Education Formation Object
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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Existence Form Government Human Nature Present Requirement
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
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
Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.
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Expectation Happiness Object Pursue Source
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
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
Marriage: A word which should be pronounced ‘mirage’.
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Funny Marriage Word
Divine right of kings means the divine right of anyone who can get uppermost.
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Divine Oneself Right
All socialism involves slavery.
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One Liner Politics Slave Social
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
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
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

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