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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.

Herbert Spencer

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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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Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.
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What a cage is to the wild beast, law is to the selfish man.
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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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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 great aim of education is not knowledge but action.
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People are beginning to see that the first requisite to success in life is to be a good animal.
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Our lives are universally shortened by our ignorance.
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Volumes might be written upon the impiety of the pious.
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Society exists for the benefit of its members, not the members for the benefit of society.
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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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A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.
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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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