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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

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
A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.
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Average Compose Ignorance Jury Man
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
How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.
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Generate Thinking Word
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
Government is essentially immoral.
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Essential Government Immoral One Liner
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
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
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
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
All socialism involves slavery.
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One Liner Politics Slave Social
Our lives are universally shortened by our ignorance.
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Ignorance Live Ourselves Universe
What a cage is to the wild beast, law is to the selfish man.
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Cage Law Man Selfish
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
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

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